'Then wisely is my soul elate,
That strife should vanish, battle cease:
I'm poor and of a low estate, [45]
The Mother of the Prince of Peace.
Joy rises in me, like a summer's morn:
Peace, Peace on Earth! the Prince of Peace is born.'
1799.
FOOTNOTES:
[338:1] First published in the Morning Post, December 25, 1799: included in the Annual Anthology, 1800, in Sibylline Leaves, 1817, 1828, 1829, and 1834.
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