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Wartime Christmas · Ririro.com - Poetry

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  Speaker 1: Wartime Christmas, led by a star, a golden star, the
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  Speaker 1: youngest star, an olden star. Here the king's and the
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  Speaker 1: shepherds are a kneeling on the ground. What did they
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  Speaker 1: come to the end to see God in the highest?
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  Speaker 1: And this is he, a baby asleep on his mother's knee,
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  Speaker 1: and with her kisses crowned. Now is the earth a
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  Speaker 1: dreary place, a troubled place, a weary place. Peace has
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  Speaker 1: hidden her lovely face and turned in tears away. Yet
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  Speaker 1: the sun, through the war cloud sees babies asleep on
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  Speaker 1: their mother's knees. While there are love and home, and
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  Speaker 1: these there shall be Christmas Day.