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Speaker 1: Christmas eighteen seventy three Christmas days are still in store.
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Speaker 1: Will they change steal faded hither or come fresh as
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Speaker 1: heretofore summering all our winter weather. Surely they will keep
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Speaker 1: their bloom all the countless pacing ages in the country.
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Speaker 1: Whence they come? Children only are the sages hither Every
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Speaker 1: hour and year children come to cure our oldness oft
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Speaker 1: alas to gather sere unbelief and earthy boldness. Men they grow,
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Speaker 1: and women cold, selfish, passionate and plaining. Ever faster they
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Speaker 1: grow old on the world. Ah eld is gaining child
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Speaker 1: whose childhood ne'er departs. Jesus with the perfect Father, drive
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Speaker 1: the age from parents' hearts to thy heart. The children gather.
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Speaker 1: Send Thy birth into our souls, with its grand and
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Speaker 1: tender story. Hark, the gracious thunder rolls news to men
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Speaker 1: to God old glory