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  Star of my heart, I follow from afar. 
  Sweet Love on high, lead on where shepherds are,
  Where Time is not, and only dreamers are. 
  Star from of old, the Magi-Kings are dead
  And a foolish Saxon seeks the manger-bed. 
  O lead me to Jehovah’s child
  Across this dreamland lone and wild,
  Then will I speak this prayer unsaid,
  And kiss his little haloed head
  “My star and I, we love thee, little child.”

  Except the Christ be born again to-night
  In dreams of all men, saints and sons of shame,
  The world will never see his kingdom bright. 
  Stars of all hearts, lead onward thro’ the night
  Past death-black deserts, doubts without a name,
  Past hills of pain and mountains of new sin
  To that far sky where mystic births begin,
  Where dreaming ears the angel-song shall win. 
  Our Christmas shall be rare at dawning there,
  And each shall find his brother fair,
  Like a little child within: 
  All hearts of the earth shall find new birth
  And wake, no more to sin.

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