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IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 104, by                 Poet Analysis     Poet's Biography
First Line: The time draws near the birth of christ
Last Line: But all is new unhallow'd ground.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Variant Title(s): The Bells Of Yule
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


The time draws near the birth of Christ;
The moon is hid, the night is still;
A single church below the hill
Is pealing, folded in the mist.

A single peal of bells below,
That wakens at this hour of rest
A single murmur in the breast,
That these are not the bells I know.

Like strangers' voices here they sound,
In lands where not a memory strays,
Nor landmark breathes of other days,
But all is new unhallow'd ground.





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