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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=428588" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>To Heavy Hearts</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">HEAVY hearts, your jubilee<br>Droops about the Christmas Tree.<br>Sudden sighs cut off the laughter,<br>For a haunting pain comes after<br>All your gallant glee,<br>— Pain for your soldiers far away to-night,<br>(O cloud that darkens on the Christmas star!)<br>Sons, husbands, those who wreathed your world with light,<br>Far, far, so far.<br>Be comforted! They never were so near.<br>In life's deep center of self-sacrifice<br>You meet with vision clear.<br>There in love's purest paradise<br>The touch of soul on soul is close and dear.<br>Not to-night shall soft cheeks glow<br>Where the Druid mistletoe<br>Weaves its charm, while hollies twinkle;<br>For the lads in some grim wrinkle<br>Of the earth crouch low.<br>Hard is their Christmas in the aching trench,<br>Or in the listening darkness mounting guard,<br>Haggard with cold and sick with creeping stench,<br>— Hard, hard, so hard.<br>Be comforted! That hardness is their pride.<br>Salute the strength that can endure the stress<br>Of such a Christmastide.<br>Our earth made beautiful shall bless<br>Their stern young manhood nobly testified.<br>Silver chimes are on the air,<br>Sweet and blithe—too blithe to bear;<br>And what singing hearth rejoices,<br>Missing the belovèd voices<br>That were merriest there?<br>The booming cannon are their Christmas bells;<br>(O Holy Child, how many a homeless waif!)<br>Their carols are the hiss and crash of shells.<br>God keep them safe!<br>Be comforted! For safe they are within<br>His quiet hand, your soldiers who fulfil<br>In steadfast discipline,<br>Like those calm stars, His patient will<br>That is the peace beneath all battle-din.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Katharine+Lee+Bates">Katharine Lee Bates</a><div class=q>
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Droops about the Christmas Tree.
Sudden sighs cut off the laughter,
For a haunting pain comes after
All your gallant glee,
— Pain for your soldiers far away to-night,
(O cloud that darkens on the Christmas star!)
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