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Christmas, 1880 · Ririro.com - Poetry

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  Speaker 1: Christmas eighteen eighty, great hearted child, thy very being, the
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  Speaker 1: son who knowest the hearts of all us prodigals. For
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  Speaker 1: who is prodigal but he who has gone far from
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  Speaker 1: the true to heart it with the false? Who who
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  Speaker 1: but thou, that from the animals knowest all the hearts
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  Speaker 1: up to the Father's own terminated? What it would be
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  Speaker 1: to be alone alone? No Father at the very thought
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  Speaker 1: thou the eternal light wast once aghast a death in
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  Speaker 1: death for thee it almost wrought. But thou didst haste
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  Speaker 1: about to breathe thy last and call'dst out father ere
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  Speaker 1: thy spirit passed, exhausted in fulfilling not any vow, but
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  Speaker 1: doing his will? Who greater is than thou, that we
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  Speaker 1: might know him? Thou didst come and live that we
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  Speaker 1: might find him? Thou didst come and die? The son heart, brother,
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  Speaker 1: thy son being, give we two would love the Father perfectly,
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  Speaker 1: and to his bosom, go back with the cry Father,
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  Speaker 1: into thy hands. I give the heart wall paper which
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  Speaker 1: left thee. But to learn how good thou art. There
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  Speaker 1: are but two in all the universe, the Father and
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  Speaker 1: his children. Not a third, nor all the weary time
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  Speaker 1: fell any curse, not once dropped from its nest, an
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  Speaker 1: unfledged bird predicate, but thou wast with it, never sorrow stirred,
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  Speaker 1: but a love pull it was upon the chain removed
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  Speaker 1: you the children to the Father again. Oh Jesus Christ,
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  Speaker 1: babe man eternal son, take pity. We are poor where
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  Speaker 1: thou art rich. Bankers are small. And yet there is
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  Speaker 1: not one in all thy father's noisy nursery which marry
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  Speaker 1: or mourning in its narrow Niche needs not thy father's heart,
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  Speaker 1: this very now, with all his being's being, even as
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  Speaker 1: thou