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“THE LANO OE THE MORNING CALNI.”—I*AGE 11 ] JWJ : •
Volume XV No. 51. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 24. 1010.' Weekly: $1 a Year
CHRISTMAS ^
A CHRISTMAS HYMN
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It was the calm and silent night!
Seven hundred years and fifty-three
Had Rome been growing up to might,
A nd now was Queen of land and sea.
Iiy No sound was heard of clashing wars;
^ Peace brooded o’er the hush'd domain;
Apollo, Pallas, Jove and Mars,
JKt Held undisturb’d their ancient reign,
In the solemn midnight
Centuries ago !
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Twas in the calm and silent night;
The senator of haughty Rome
Impatient urged his chariot’s flight,
From lordly revel rolling home.
Triumphal arches gleaming swell
His breast with thoughts of boundless sway ;
What reck’d the Roman what befell
A paltry province far away,
In the solemn midnight, .
Centuries ago !
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C Within that province far away 1
SL Went plodding home a weary boor: iwj
A streak of light before him lay,
Wf Fall’n through a half-shut stable door
ft? Across his path. He pass’d—for nought W*
7 old what was going on within ; gk
ftf* How keen the stars ! His only thought;
%rf£T The air how calm and cold and thin, ^B
In the solemn midnight Cr
Centuries ago! mog
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X O strange indifference ! low and high,
Xyl Drows'd over common joys and cares :
jLp The earth was still—hut knew not why ;
The world was listening unawares.
W* How calm a moment may precede
R? One that shall thrill the world for ever !
To that still moment none would heed,
„ V'*' Alan’s doom was link’d, no more to sever,
Jp. In the solemn midnight
vM Centuries ago!
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It is the calm and silent night !
A thousand bells ring out, and throw
Their joyous peals abroad, and smite
The darkness, charm’d and holy now.
The night that erst no name had worn,
7o it a happy name is given;
For in that stable lay new-born
The peaceful Prince of Earth and Heaven.
In the solemn midnight
Centuries ago / —Alfred Domett.
T U * 117 If • Winter Work in the Garden ; Profitable Rite Culture; Permanently Profitable Agriculture;
yff A fllS rV Ohi-Time Southern Christmas ; The Growing Demand for Peace ; The Land of the Aforn
17? ing Calm”; The Story of a Wonderful Calf; Letters from Farmer Readers ; The Incubator on the Farm ; When Buying a ^
A Spray Pump ; Prevalence and Cost of the Hookworm Disease ; The Index for This Quarter. 0ft