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Washington s Christmas poem
As a boy at home on Pope’s Creek, George Washingtonkepta
copy-book and in it recorded a poem, “On Chmtjnw Djy- ft to the religious sentiment that was so importan y bration. Assist me, Muse divine! to Sing the Mom On which the Saviour of Mankind was bom, But oh! what Numbers to the Theme can rise. Unless kind Angels aid me from the Skies. Methinks I see the tunefull Host descend, And with officious Joy the Scene attend! Hark, by their Hymns directed on the Road, The Gladsome Shepherds find the nascent God! And view the Infant consc ious of his Birth, Smiling bespeak Salvation to the Earth!
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