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CHRISTMAS NIGHT.

Painted by F. S. Church for McClure's Magazine.

Love's angel walketh in the forest wild;
No prowling midnight beast her pathway bars;
For love herself, who dwells beyond the stars,
Becomes to-night for us a gentle child.