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Christmas Day, 1850
by [?]


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.