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Beautiful stories wed with lovely days / Like words and music: -- what shall be the tale / Of love and nobleness that might avail / To express in action what this sweetness says --
The sweetness of a day of airs and rays / That are strange glories on the winter pale?
Alas, O beauty, all my fancies fail!
I cannot tell a story in thy praise!
Thou hast, thou hast one -- set, and sure to chime / With thee, as with the days of "winter wild;"
For Joy like Sorrow loves his blessed feet / Who shone from Heaven on Earth this Christmas-time / A Brother and a Saviour, Mary's child! -- / And so, fair day, thou _hast_ thy story sweet.