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The sounds of an English country Christmas helped Tennyson in his deep mourning for an old friend.
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The most famous of all Charles Wesley’s Christmas hymns celebrates the birth of Christ, in company with the shepherds of Bethlehem.
A hymn for Christmas, wondering at the mystery of the infinity of God contained within the tiny frame of a new-born child.
A meditation on the birth of Christ, as the light of heaven come down to earth.
The Tilers and Thatchers of fourteenth-century York tell how Joseph and Mary fared after they were turned away by the innkeepers of Bethlehem.
The chill of the night is relieved by the warmth of the beasts in their stalls, prompting Mary and Joseph to reflect on the promises of Scripture.
One Christmas Eve back in the twelfth century, a monk keeping midnight vigil in Lindisfarne priory watched spellbound as two great doors opened all by themselves.