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Joy, joy, and jubilee!
Good-will to men from sea to sea,
This merry Christmas-tide!
Lo! in the homes of every land
The children reign to-day;
They alone,
With our hearts their throne,
And never a sceptre but their own
Small hands to rule and sway!
Peace, peace--the Christ-child's love--
Flies over the world, a white, white dove,
This happy Christmas-tide!
THE SILENT CHILDREN.
|THE light was low in the school-room;
The day before Christmas day
Had ended. It was darkening in the garden
Where the Silent Children play.
Throughout that House of Pity,
The soundless lessons said,
The noiseless sport suspended,
The voiceless tasks all read,
The little deaf-mute children,
As still as still could be,
Gathered about the master,
Sensitive, swift to see,
With their fine attentive fingers
And their wonderful, watchful eyes--
What dumb joy he would bring them
For the Christmas eve's surprise!
The lights blazed out in the school-room
The play-ground went dark as death;
The master moved in a halo;
The children held their breath:
"I show you now a wonder--
The audiphone," he said.
He spoke in their silent language,
Like the language of the dead.
And answering spake the children,
As the dead might answer too:
"But what for us, O master?
This may be good for you;
"But how is our Christmas coming
Out of a wise machine?
For not like other children's
Have our happy hours been;
"And not like other children's
Can they now or ever be!"
But the master smiled through the halo:
"Just trust a mystery,
Then to the waiting marvel
The listening children leant:
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