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...strikes a universal peace through sea and land. No war, or hattle's sound, Was heard the world around : The idle spear and shield were high up hung, The hooked...trumpet spake not to the armed throng ; And kings sat still with awful eye, As if they surely knew their sovereign Lord was by. But peaceful was the...

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...highest, peace on earth, and good will among men." " No war nor battle's sound Was heard the world around, The idle spear and shield were high up hung ; The...blood ; The trumpet spake not to the armed throng, But peaceful was the night, In which the Prince of light His reign of peace upon the earth began."...

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...ingredient. — Bishop Taylor. THE NATIVITY. No war, or battle's sound Was heard the world around : The idle spear and shield were high up hung, The hooked chariot stood Unstain'd with hostile blooJ, The trumpet spake not to the armed throng, And kings sat still with awful...

...strikes a universal peace through sea and land. No war, or battle's sound, Was heard the world around : The idle spear and shield were high up hung ; The...blood ; The trumpet spake not to the armed throng. However brief may be its endurance, perhaps not until these lines issue from the press, such is really...