Tend Your Hearts

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Twas gentle calm around us then

A feeling in the air

A soothing breeze

disturbed the cold

Its breath replaced despair

The stars had faded much too soon

mid - night

we wondered why

Then ...

a brighter glow than a million stars

lit up the eastern sky

Our path seen clear ... in all our years

we never felt this way

We left our flocks beneath its light

to tend our hearts that day

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Three men we saw

in finest garb

with gifts to bless a king

Bestowed upon a man and wife

in a stable

for lesser things

We could not hear just what they said

we thought our place

forlorn

They called to us and said

"come forth"

"This night a child is born"

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