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The Baby.

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Pray, have you heard the news?     Sturdy in lungs and thews,     There's a fine baby!     Ring bells of crystal lip,     Wave boughs with blossoming tip;     Think what he may be!     Love cannot love enough,     Winter is never rough     All round such sweetness;     One of a million more     Sent to the glad heart's door     In their completeness!     Such news is never old,     Though in each ear't is told,     As a first birthday.     Welcome, thou ray of light!     In golden prayers bedight,     Sail down thy mirth-way!

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