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THE CHRISTMAS BELLS' MISSION.
Sadness and Gladness were walking together,
As oft they had done before:
Sadness was sighing, and Gladness replying
With jewels of laughter galore.
“How on this earth can you find any mirth,
When sorrow is sown in your sight?”
“How can you sigh,” was the merry reply,
“When all of the world is so bright?”
As oft they had done before:
Sadness was sighing, and Gladness replying
With jewels of laughter galore.
“How on this earth can you find any mirth,
When sorrow is sown in your sight?”
“How can you sigh,” was the merry reply,
“When all of the world is so bright?”
Jauntily swinging, the Christmas bells' ringing,
Came merrily sweet to the ear:
Sadness, unheeding despondency's pleading,
Sent upward a sweet smile of cheer.
But Gladness a tear dropped, warm and sincere,
For the pain that the Christ-Martyr bore;
And each saw the other; and Sadness and Gladness
Twined arms, and were friends evermore.
Came merrily sweet to the ear:
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Sent upward a sweet smile of cheer.
But Gladness a tear dropped, warm and sincere,
For the pain that the Christ-Martyr bore;
And each saw the other; and Sadness and Gladness
Twined arms, and were friends evermore.
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