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Christmas Day, 1850

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Beautiful stories wed with lovely days         Like words and music:--what shall be the tale         Of love and nobleness that might avail     To express in action what this sweetness says--     The sweetness of a day of airs and rays         That are strange glories on the winter pale?         Alas, O beauty, all my fancies fail!     I cannot tell a story in thy praise!     Thou hast, thou hast one--set, and sure to chime         With thee, as with the days of "winter wild;"             For Joy like Sorrow loves his blessed feet     Who shone from Heaven on Earth this Christmas-time         A Brother and a Saviour, Mary's child!--             And so, fair day, thou hast thy story sweet.

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