A Baby-Sermon
The lightning and thunder
They go and they come:
But the stars and the stillness
Are always at home.
Poetry
Chapter List-
Poetry
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To My Father
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A Hidden Life
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The Homeless Ghost
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Abu Midjan
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An Old Story
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A Book of Dreams
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To Aurelio Saffi
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A. M. D.
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A Memorial of Africa
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A Gift
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The Man of Songs
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Better Things
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The Journey
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Prayer
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Rest
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ToA. J.Scott
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Light
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ToA. J.Scott
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Were I a Skilful Painter
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If I Were a Monk, and Thou Wert a Nun
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Blessed Are the Meek, for They Shall Inherit the Earth
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The Hills
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I Know What Beauty Is
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I Would I Were a Child
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The Lost Soul
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A Dream Within a Dream
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After an Old Legend
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The Tree’s Prayer
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A Story of the Sea-Shore
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My Heart
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O Do Not Leave Me
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The Flower-Angels
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To My Sister
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Oh Thou of Little Faith
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Longing
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The Disciple
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The Child-Mother
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Chapter_40
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A Prayer for the Past
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Chapter_42
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My Room
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Sympathy
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Little Elfie
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The Thank-Offering
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The Burnt-Offering
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ToS. F. S.
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The Unseen Face
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Concerning Jesus
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Death and Birth
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Longing
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Chapter_53
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Death
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Lessons for a Child
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Hope Deferred
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The Death of the Old Year
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A Thanksgiving
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The Gospel Women
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I
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II
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III
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IV
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V
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VI
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VII
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VIII
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IX
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X
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XI
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XII
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XIII
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XIV
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XV
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XVI
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A Song in a Dream
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Songs of the Days and Nights
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Songs of the Summer Days
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Songs of the Summer Nights
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Songs of the Autumn Days
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Songs of the Autumn Nights
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Songs of the Winter Days
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Songs of the Winter Nights
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Songs of the Spring Days
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Songs of the Spring Nights
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The Three Horses
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The Golden Key
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Somnium Mystici
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The Sangreal
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The Failing Track
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Tell Me
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Brother Artist!
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Sir Lark and King Sun
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The Owl and the Bell
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He Heeded Not
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The Sheep and the Goat
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The Shadows
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An Old Sermon with a New Text
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The Wakeful Sleeper
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A Dream of Waking
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A Meditation ofSt.Eligius
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Hymn for a Sick Girl
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A Christmas Carol for 1862
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A Christmas Carol
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The Sleepless Jesus
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The Children’s Heaven
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Rejoice
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The Grace of Grace
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Antiphon
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Dorcas
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Marriage Song
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Blind Bartimeus
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Come Unto Me
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Blessed Are the Poor in Spirit
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Blessed Are They That Mourn
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Blessed Are the Meek
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Blessed Are They That Hunger
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Blessed Are the Merciful
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Blessed Are the Pure in Heart
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Morning Hymn
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Evening Hymn
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Noontide Hymn
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The Thankless Lady
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The Sea-Shell
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Autumn Song
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Spring Song
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What Makes Summer?
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The Mistletoe
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Wild Flowers
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Professor Noctutus
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Bird-Songs
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The Unseen Model
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Legend of the Corrievrechan
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The Dead Hand
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To Lady Noel Byron
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To Garibaldi, with a Book
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To the Same
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The Holy Midnight
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Hard Times
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Summer Song
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Picture Songs
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A Dream Song
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A Manchester Poem
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Riddles
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Baby
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Up and Down
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Up in the Tree
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A Baby-Sermon
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Little Bo-Peep
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Little Boy Blue
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Willie’s Question
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The Early Bird
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Song of the Lonely
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The Diary of an Old Soul
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Dedication
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January
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February
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March
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April
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May
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June
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July
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August
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September
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October
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November
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December
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In the Winter
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Chapter_169
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Chapter_170
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In the Winter
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Christmas-Day, 1878
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The New Year
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Two Rondels
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Rondel
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Song
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Smoke
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To a Certain Critic
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Song
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A Cry
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From Home
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To My Mother Earth
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Thy Heart
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Chapter_184
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No Sign
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The Chrysalis
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November, 1851
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Of One Who Died in Spring
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An Autumn Song
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Triolet
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I See Thee Not
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A Broken Prayer
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Come Down
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A Thanksgiving forF. D.Maurice
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A Mood
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The Carpenter
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The Old Garden
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A Noonday Melody
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Who Lights the Fire?
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Who Would Have Thought?
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On a December Day
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Christmas Day, 1850
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To a February Primrose
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In February
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The True
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The Dwellers Therein
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Autumn’s Gold
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Punishment
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Show Us the Father
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The Pinafore
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The Prism
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Sleep
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Sharing
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In Bonds
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Hunger
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To the Clouds
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New Year’s Eve: A Waking Dream
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Death
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From North Wales: To the Mother
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Come to Me
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A Fear
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The Lost House
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Chapter_223
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The Goal
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The Healer
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Oh That a Wind
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A Vision ofSt.Eligius
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Of the Son of Man
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A Song-Sermon:
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Words in the Night
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Consider the Ravens
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The Wind of the World
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Sabbath Bells
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Fighting
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After the Fashion of an Old Emblem
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George Rolleston
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A Prayer in Sickness
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Quiet Dead!
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Let Your Light So Shine
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Triolet
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The Souls’ Rising
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Awake!
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To an Autograph-Hunter
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Second Sight
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With a Copy of “In Memoriam”
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They Are Blind
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When the Storm Was Proudest
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Not Understood
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Hom.Il.V403
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The Dawn
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Galileo
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Subsidy
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The Prophet
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The Watcher
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The Beloved Disciple
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The Lily of the Valley
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Evil Influence
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Spoken of Several Philosophers
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Nature a Moral Power
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To June
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Summer
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On a Midge
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Steadfast
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Provision
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First Sight of the Sea
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On the Source of the Arve
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Confidence
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Fate
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Unrest
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My Two Geniuses
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Sudden Calm
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Thou Also
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The Aurora Borealis
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The Human
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Written on a Stormy Night
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Reverence Waking Hope
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Born of Water
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To a Thunder-Cloud
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Sun and Moon
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Doubt Heralding Vision
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Life of Death?
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Lost and Found
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The Moon
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Truth, Not Form!
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God in Growth
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In a Churchyard
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Power
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Death
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That Holy Thing
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What Man Is There of You?
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Bell Upon Organ
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O Wind of God
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Shall the Dead Praise Thee?
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One with Nature
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A Year Song
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Song
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For Where Your Treasure Is, There Will Your Heart Be Also
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The Asthmatic Man to the Satan That Binds Him
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Song-Sermon
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Shadows
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A Winter Prayer
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Song of a Poor Pilgrim
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An Evening Prayer
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Song-Sermon
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A Dream-Song
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Christmas, 1880
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Rondel
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The Sparrow
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December 23, 1879
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Song-Prayer
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December 27, 1879
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Sunday, December 28, 1879
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Song-Sermon
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The Donkey in the Cart to the Horse in the Carriage
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Room to Roam
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Cottage Songs
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I
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II
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III
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IV
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V
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The Wind and the Moon
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The Foolish Harebell
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Song
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An Improvisation
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Equity
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The Consoler
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To ⸻
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To a Sister
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Contrition
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The Shortest and Sweetest of Songs
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Russell Gurney
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To One Threatened with Blindness
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To Aubrey de Vere
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General Gordon
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Written for One in Sore Pain
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Christmas, 1873
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Christmas, 1884
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A Song for Christmas
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To My Aging Friends
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Christmas Song of the Old Children
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Christmas Meditation
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The Old Castle
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Christmas Prayer
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Song of the Innocents
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Christmas Day and Every Day
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Rondel
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A Prayer
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Home from the Wars
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God; Not Gift
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To Any Friend
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Winter Song
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At My Window After Sunset
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A Father to a Mother
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The Temple of God
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Going to Sleep
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To-Morrow
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Foolish Children
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Love Is Home
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Faith
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Waiting
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Our Ship
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My Heart Thy Lark
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Two in One
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Bedtime
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A Prayer
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A Song Prayer
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Reciprocity
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What the Lord Saith
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How Shall He Sing Who Hath No Song
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This World
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Saint Peter
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Zacchaeus
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After Thomas Kemp
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To Gordon, Leaving Khartoum
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Song of the Saints and Angels
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Failure
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ToE. G., Dedicating a Book
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ToG. M. T.
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In Memoriam Lady Caroline Charteris
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A Mammon-Marriage
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A Song in the Night
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Love’s History
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The Lark and the Wind
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A Dead House
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Master and Boy
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The Clock of the Universe
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The Thorn in the Flesh
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Chapter_389
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In the Night
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The Giver
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False Prophets
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Life-Weary
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Approaches
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Travellers’ Song
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Love Is Strength
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Coming
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A Song of the Waiting Dead
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Obedience
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A Song in the Night
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De Profundis
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Blind Sorrow
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Angels
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The Father’s Worshippers
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A Birthday-Wish
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To Any One
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Waiting
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Lost but Safe
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Much and More
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Hope and Patience
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A Better Thing
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A Prisoner
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To My Lord and Master
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To One Unsatisfied
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To My God
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Triolet
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The Word of God
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To the Life Eternal
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Hope Deferred
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Forgiveness
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Dejection
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Appeal
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Mother Nature
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King Cole
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Said and Did
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Chapter_426
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The Girl That Lost Things
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A Make-Believe
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The Christmas Child
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A Christmas Prayer
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No End of No-Story
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Endnotes