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First Line: Our hearts to-night are open wide
Last Line: Our hearts to-night.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


OUR hearts to-night are open wide,
The grudge, the grief, are laid aside:
The path and porch are swept of snow,
The doors unlatched; the hearthstones glow --
No visitor can be denied.

All tender human homes must hide
Some wistfulness beneath their pride:
Compassionate and humble grow
Our hearts to-night.

Let empty chair and cup abide!
Who knows? Some well-remembered stride
May come as once so long ago --
Then welcome, be it friend or foe!
There is no anger can divide
Our hearts to-night.





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