Have a blessed Christmas!

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As we come down to the last day of shopping for gifts, the beginning of the College Bowl week, the start of holiday vacations and time with family, I hope that you will have the opportunity to reflect on and celebrate the birth of Jesus the Savior into the world. I have included a poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar entitled "Christmas Carol" for your reading pleasure. Have a blessed Christmas!

Christmas Carol
Paul Laurence Dunbar

Ring out, ye bells! 
All Nature swells 
With gladness of the wondrous story, 
The world was lorn, 
But Christ is born 
To change our sadness into glory. 

Sing, earthlings, sing! 
To-night a King 
Hath come from heaven's high throne to bless us. 
The outstretched hand 
O'er all the land 
Is raised in pity to caress us. 

Come at His call; 
Be joyful all; 
Away with mourning and with sadness! 
The heavenly choir 
With holy fire 
Their voices raise in songs of gladness. 

The darkness breaks 
And Dawn awakes, 
Her cheeks suffused with youthful blushes. 
The rocks and stones 
In holy tones 
Are singing sweeter than the thrushes. 

Then why should we 
In silence be, 
When Nature lends her voice to praises; 
When heaven and earth 
Proclaim the truth 
Of Him for whom that lone star blazes? 

No, be not still, 
But with a will 
Strike all your harps and set them ringing; 
On hill and heath 
Let every breath 
Throw all its power into singing! 

Paul Laurence Dunbar

African-American Poet

June 27, 1872 - February 9, 1906

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