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Sat 12 Dec 2006ChristmasWe listen to the story again:
An exotic visitor
Comes to a country girl
In a mountain town
And nine months afterwards
God's wisdom is a
footling child.Shepherds arrive to the place,
Summoned by music;
And scholars from some
distant part,
Tracking a light.
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