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Henry Vaughan - Christ`s Nativity
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	.   Awake, glad heart! get up and sing!
	    It is the birth-day of thy King.
	          Awake! awake!
	          The Sun doth shake
	    Light from his locks, and all the way
	    Breathing perfumes, doth spice the day.
	      Awake, awake! hark how th` wood rings;
	    Winds whisper, and the busy springs
	          A concert make;
	         Awake! awake!
	   Man is their high-priest, and should rise
	   To offer up the sacrifice.
	     I would I were some bird, or star,
	   Flutt`ring in woods, or lifted far
	         Above this inn
	         And road of sin!
	   Then either star or bird should be
	   Shining or singing still to thee.
	     I would I had in my best part
	   Fit rooms for thee! or that my heart
	         Were so clean as
	         Thy manger was!
	   But I am all filth, and obscene;
	   Yet, if thou wilt, thou canst make clean.
	     Sweet Jesu! will then. Let no more
	   This leper haunt and soil thy door!
	         Cure him, ease him,
	         O release him!
	   And let once more, by mystic birth,
	   The Lord of life be born in earth.
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