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1/8/07 edit: you will notice that bit by bit the Christmas music is being replaced ...hope
you enjoy the new as well as you did the old...jim
I know that Christmas-tide is past;
that time of gifts is gone
We've celebrated Jesus' birth
and watched salvation's dawn.
The gifts and trees are put away
the creche is in the crate.
Our view, like Janus' gaze, beholds
the new year at the gate.
But still a fragrance lingers on
rekindling that light.
A longing glance the manger t'ward
relives the holy night.
..so just a few days let me have
to nurse the joy within;
the joy that came when one child's birth
proclaimed the death of sin.
And let me for a few hours more
the old glad tidings ring;
Come join me, friend, recall the day
the babe was born our King.
©copyright Jan, 2007,james a. smallish
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"Finally, dear family, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovable, whatever is of good repute--if there is any virtue or anything deemed worthy of praise--(continue to) nurture and treasure the thought of these things."
Philippians, 4:8, jimmish heartfelt translation
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