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The Christmas Silence · Ririro.com - Poetry

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Speaker 1: The Christmas silence. Hushed are the pigeons cooing low anthropology
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Speaker 1: rafters of the loft, and mild eyed oxen breathing soft
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Speaker 1: sleep on the fragrant hay below. Dim shadows in the
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Speaker 1: corner hide the glimmering lanterns razor shed, where one young
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Speaker 1: lamb just lifts his head, then huddles against his mother's side.
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Speaker 1: Strange silence tingles in the air through the half open door.
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Speaker 1: A bar of light from one low hanging star touches
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Speaker 1: a baby's radiant hair. No sound. The mother, kneeling, lays
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Speaker 1: rational her cheek against the little face. Oh human love,
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Speaker 1: Oh heavenly grace, tis yet in silence that she prays.
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Speaker 1: Ages of silence end tonight. Then to the long expectant earth,
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Speaker 1: astronomers come to greet his birth in burst of music, love,
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Speaker 1: and light.