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A CHRISTMAS SONG by WILLIAM COX BENNETT

First Line: BLOW, WIND, BLOW
Last Line: AND CHRISTMAS THAT COMES SO NEAR.
Subject(s): CHRISTMAS; NATIVITY, THE;

BLOW, wind, blow,
Sing through yard and shroud;
Pipe it shrilly and loud,
Aloft as well as below;
Sing in my sailor's ear
The song I sing to you,
"Come home, my sailor true,
For Christmas that comes so near."

Go, wind, go,
Hurry his home-bound sail,
Through gusts that are edged with hail,
Through winter, and sleet, and snow;
Song, in my sailor's ear,
Your shrilling and moans shall be,
For he knows they sing him to me
And Christmas that comes so near.



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