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Peace on Earth
We have read the beautiful story
  Of the shepherds and angels of light;
But where shall the harassed souls of men
  Find peace upon earth tonight?

In Russia, suffering Russia,
  Where a maddened peasant throng
Is striving against the ruling powers,
  To right oppression's wrong?

Where tyrants cower and tremble
  As the people's arm grows strong?
Do you think the Czar or the howling mob
  Heed the herald angels' song?

In England, that grand old country,
  Where starving humans cry
From the great and rich metroplis
  For work, lest their loved ones die?

Eight hundred thousand waiting
  For food or for death's release;
Think you this starving multitude
  In their garrets and cellars find peace?

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