<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=355075" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Christmas Carol</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">It chanced upon the merry merry Christmas eve,<br>I went sighing past the church across the moorland dreary-<br>'Oh! never sin and want and woe this earth will leave,<br>And the bells but mock the wailing round, they sing so cheery.<br>How long, O Lord! how long before Thou come again?<br>Still in cellar, and in garret, and on moorland dreary<br>The orphans moan, and widows weep, and poor men toil in vain,<br>Till earth is sick of hope deferred, though Christmas bells be cheery.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then arose a joyous clamour from the wild-fowl on the mere,<br>Beneath the stars, across the snow, like clear bells ringing,<br>And a voice within cried-'Listen!-Christmas carols even here!<br>Though thou be dumb, yet o'er their work the stars and snows are singing.<br>Blind! I live, I love, I reign; and all the nations through<br>With the thunder of my judgments even now are ringing.<br>Do thou fulfil thy work but as yon wild-fowl do,<br>Thou wilt heed no less the wailing, yet hear through it angels singing.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Eversley, 1849.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Charles+Kingsley">Charles Kingsley</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=355075" data-title="A Christmas Carol de Charles Kingsley" data-description="It chanced upon the merry merry Christmas eve, I went sighing past the church across the moorland dreary- 'Oh! never sin and want and woe this earth will leave, And the bells but mock the wailing round, they sing so cheery. How long, O Lord! how l..."></div> </div> </div>

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