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fC(S :: cww ' aoutn Carolina, Virginia, l j i. Jr - 11' A Farm and Home Weeldy for North and enneccee, ana vxeorma Vet XXV. Ik SI; RALEjGH, H. C, DECEMBER 24, 1910. UccMy: $1 a ,Yccy a S CHRISTMAS A CHRISTMAS HYMN ft as the calm and silent night ! , vpyttjs rttfrf PittiJthrto iZ3 rr i ' '-' it ' , J J J rv r- Rome been growing up to might LX- 'V " it nrf'now was Qween of land and sea. u sound was heard of clashing wars ; fjff: J Peace brooded o'er the hush'd domain ; Twos m the calm and silent night; The senator, of haughty Rome Impatient urged hist chariot's flight, From lordly revel rolling home. Triumphal arches gleaming swell his. breast with thoughts of boundless sway ; . .KS rx. 71- 'I & .: , In the solemn midnight, " R " . in tte spteMninihight f-- r.,: ' " Centuries ago! : . : ' Centuries ago! , Within that province far away Went plodding home a weary boor : A streak of light before him lay, FalVn through a half rshut stable door Across his path. He pass' d- for nought l old what was going on within ; How keen the stars ! His only thought; The air how calm and cold and thin, In the solemn midnight Centuries ago ! I IV, v. I O strange indifference A low and high, Drows'd over common joys and cares; The earth was still but knew not why ; : , The world was listening unawares. How calm a moment may precede One that shall thrill the world for ever ! To that still moment none would heed, ' Man's doom was link'd, no more to sever, In the solemnmidnight Centuries ago ! It is the calm and silent night ! A thousand bells ring out, and throw Their joyous peals abroad, and pmite The darkness, charm' d and holy now. The night that erst no name had worn, To it a happy name is given; For in that' stable lay new-born The peaceful Prince of Earth and Heaven, In the solemn midnight Centuries ago ! Alfred Domett TU c XXJ Oo1f wnter Wor$ in the 0arden i Changta in Tenant System; Permanently Profitable Agricnltore ; A MS W 6ClV n Old-Tine Southern Christmas; The Growing Demand for Peace; "The Land of the Morn: ing Calm", The Story, of a Wonderful Calf; Letters from Farmer Readers ; The Incubator on the Farm ; When Baying a Spray Pump; Prevalence and Cost of the Hookworm Disease; The Index for This Quarter, 1 ju 1910 - .. , VTNi jSn!!J!?5 ! 1 . r i
The Progressive Farmer (Raleigh, N.C.)
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