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UT trom the ivied tow 
 The chimes peal far and wide ; 
 It has. come, the sacred hour. 
 The beautiful Christmas-tide. 
 
HE merry, jangling bells 
 With music flood the air; 
 The jubilant organ-swells 
 
 Uplift the soul like a prayer. 
 

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 -IE scarlet holly shines 
 Through frosty panes aglow ; 
 P And tapers light the shrines 
 Where the palm and 
 
 
 For eve, with its hallowed mirth, 
 Foretells the rapturous morn ; 
 
 And over the fair, wide earth 
 
 There is joy that the Christ was born ! 
 
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 BEAUTIFUL Christmas-tide, 
 When the wanderers dream of rest, 
 And gather from far and wide, 
 Like birds to the olden nest. 
 
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 HEN amid each festal scene 
 Sweet voices, tender and low, 
 Drift back to the heart serene 
 
 With the peace which the angels know. 
 
WHEN the song that is never old 
 Resounds from afar and afar, 
 And a lustre and light untold 
 
 Flash out from Bethlehem's star. 
 
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 One glory in minster and hall ; 
 Unsilenced and unforgot, 
 
 They hold the world in their thrall. 
 
pF MINE, stars, till the rose of dawn 
 
 Blooms red in the eastern skies ; 
 When the veil of night is withdrawn. 
 
 Awake, O souls, and arise! 
 Awake to the gladness and mirth 
 
 Which wait on the hallowed morn ; 
 Rejoice and give thanks, O earth, 
 
 That of old the Christ was born ! 
 
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