It was the winter wild, While the Heaven-born child, All meanly wrapt …

John Milton
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It was the winter wild, While the Heaven-born child, All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies. ✨ 'On the Morning of Christ's Nativity: The Hymn' (1645) st. 1
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It was the winter wild, While the Heaven-born child, All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies. ✨ 'On the Morning of Christ's Nativity: The Hymn' (1645) st. 1

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