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YULE TIDE[1]
THE MADONNA DI SAN SISTO[6]
BETHLEHEM GATE[11]
SAINT JOSEPH[16]
A CRADLE SONG[18]
A CRADLED CHILD[23]
AN EMPTY CRADLE[26]
NEW YEAR'S EVE [28]
THE VICTIM[30]
THE DAYSMAN[33]
THE PHYSICIAN[36]
THE POET[40]
THREE SISTERS[43]
A CHRISTMAS PUZZLE[46]
FOUR EPIPHANIES[48]
THE CHILDREN'S EUCHARIST[56]
THE GOSPEL SONGS:
I. Benedictus[59]
II. Magnificat[63]
III. Nunc Dimittis[66]
NOTES[69]

YULE TIDE.

'They bring me sorrow touched with joy,
The merry merry bells of Yule.'

Tennyson, In Memoriam.

The Royal Birthday dawns again,
A stricken world to bless;
And sufferers forget their pain,
And mourners their distress.

Love sings to-day; her eyes so fair
With happy tears are wet;
She is too humble to despair,
Too faithful to forget.

Her voice is very soft and sweet,
Her heart is brave and strong;
Her vassal, I would fain repeat
Some fragments of her song.

A Birthday-song my heart would sing
Its rapture to express;
My Father's son must be a king,
And share His consciousness.