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Sonnets - I - Christmas Day

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O happy day, with seven-fold blessings set     Amid thy hallowed hours, the memories dear     Of childhoods holidays, and household cheer,     When friends and kin in loving circle met,     And youths glad gatherings, where the sands were wet     By waves that hurt not, whilst the great cliffs near,     With storms erewhile acquaint, gave echo clear     Of voices gay and laughter gayer yet.     And graver thoughts and holier arise     Of how, twixt that first eve and dawn of thine,     The Star ascended which hath lit our skies     More than the sun himself; and mid the kine     The Child was born whom shepherds, and the wise;     Who came from far, and angels, called Divine.

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