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In the Holy Nativity of our Lord · Ririro.com - Poetry

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  Speaker 1: In the holy nativity of our Lord. Come, we shepherds,
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  Speaker 1: whose blessed sight hath met Love's noon in nature's night. Come,
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  Speaker 1: lift we up our loftier song, and wake the sun
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  Speaker 1: that lies too long to all our world of well
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  Speaker 1: stolen joy. He slept and dreamt of no such thing,
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  Speaker 1: while we found out Heaven's fairer eye and kissed the
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  Speaker 1: cradle of our King. Tell him he rises now too
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  Speaker 1: late to show us aught worth looking at. Tell him
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  Speaker 1: we now can show him more than he e'er showed
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  Speaker 1: to mortal sight than he himself e'er saw before which
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  Speaker 1: to be seen needs not his light. Tell him titterus
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  Speaker 1: where the hast been, Tell him thrsus what the hast seen.
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  Speaker 1: Gloomy night embraced the place where the noble infant lay,
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  Speaker 1: the babe looked up and showed his face in spite
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  Speaker 1: of darkness. It was day. It was thy day sweet,
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  Speaker 1: and did rise not from the east, but from thine eyes.
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  Speaker 1: It was thy day, sweet, and did rise not from
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  Speaker 1: the east, but from thine eyes. Winter chit aloud and
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  Speaker 1: sent the angry North to wage his wars. The North
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  Speaker 1: forgot his fierce intent and left perfumes instead. Of scars,
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  Speaker 1: by those sweet eyes, persuasive powers where he meant frost,
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  Speaker 1: he scattered flowers, by those sweet eyes, persuasive powers where
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  Speaker 1: he meant frost, he scattered flowers. We saw thee in
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  Speaker 1: thy balmy nest, young dawn of our eternal day. We
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  Speaker 1: saw thine eyes break from their east and chase the
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  Speaker 1: trembling shades away. We saw thee, and we blest the sight.
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  Speaker 1: We saw thee by thine own sweet light. Poor World said,
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  Speaker 1: I what wilt thou do to entertain this starry stranger?
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  Speaker 1: Is this the best thou canst bestow? A cold and
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  Speaker 1: not too cleanly manger, Contend ye powers of heaven and
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  Speaker 1: earth to fit a bed for this huge birth. Contend
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  Speaker 1: ye powers of heaven and earth to fit a bed
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  Speaker 1: for this huge birth. Proud World said, I cease your
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  Speaker 1: contest and let the mighty babe alone. The phoenix builds
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  Speaker 1: the phoenix nest. Love's architecture is his own. The babe
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  Speaker 1: whose birth embraves this morn made his own bed ere
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  Speaker 1: he was born. The babe whose birth embraves, this morn
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  Speaker 1: made his own bed ere he was born. I saw
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  Speaker 1: the curled drops, soft and slow come hovering o'er the
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  Speaker 1: place's head, offering their whitest sheets of snow to furnish
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  Speaker 1: the fair infant's bed. Forbear said I be not too bold.
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  Speaker 1: Your fleece is white, but tis too cold forbear, said
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  Speaker 1: I be not too bold. Your fleece is white, but
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  Speaker 1: tis too cold. I saw the obsequious serapheims their rosy
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  Speaker 1: fleece of fire bestow for well. They now can spare
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  Speaker 1: their wings, since Heaven itself lies here below. Well done,
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  Speaker 1: said I, But are you sure your down so warm
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  Speaker 1: will pass for pure? Well done? Said I, but are
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  Speaker 1: you sure your down so warm will pass for pure? No? No,
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  Speaker 1: your keening not yet to seek where to repose his
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  Speaker 1: royal head. See see how soon his new bloomed cheek
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  Speaker 1: TwixT mother's breasts is gone to bed? Sweet choice said
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  Speaker 1: we no way, but so not to lie cold yet
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  Speaker 1: sleep in snow. Sweet Choice said we no way, but
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  Speaker 1: so not to lie cold yet sleep in snow. We
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  Speaker 1: saw thee in thy balmy nest, bright dawn of our
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  Speaker 1: eternal day. We saw thine eyes break from their east
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  Speaker 1: and chase the trembling shades away. We saw thee, and
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  Speaker 1: we blessed the sight we saw THEE by thine own
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  Speaker 1: sweet light. We saw THEE, and we blessed the sight.
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  Speaker 1: We saw THEE by thine own sweet light. Welcome all
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  Speaker 1: wonders in one sight, Eternity shut in a span, summer
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  Speaker 1: in winter, day in night, Heaven in earth, and God
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  Speaker 1: in Man, great little one, whose all embracing birth lifts
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  Speaker 1: earth to heaven, stoops heaven to earth. Welcome though nor
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  Speaker 1: to gold nor silk, to more than Caesar's birthright is
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  Speaker 1: two sister sees of virgin milk, with many a rarely
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  Speaker 1: tempered kiss that breathes at once both maid and mother
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  Speaker 1: warms in the one, cools in the other. Welcome though
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  Speaker 1: not to those gay flies gilded in the beams of
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  Speaker 1: earthly kings, slippery souls in smiling eyes, But to poor shepherds,
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  Speaker 1: homespun things, whose wealth's their flock, whose wit to be
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  Speaker 1: well read in their simplicity. Yet when young April's husband showers,
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  Speaker 1: shall bless the fruitful Maya's bed will bring the first
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  Speaker 1: born of her flowers to kiss thy feet and crown
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  Speaker 1: thy head. To thee, dread lamb, whose love must keep
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  Speaker 1: the shepherds more than they the sheep, to thee meek, majesty,
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  Speaker 1: soft King of simple graces and sweet loves. Each of
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  Speaker 1: us his lamb, will bring each his pair of silver doves,
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  Speaker 1: till burnt at last in fire of thy fair eyes.
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  Speaker 1: Ourselves become our own best sacrifice