It Was The Calm And Silent Night! Seven Hundred Years And Fifty-three Had Rome Been Growing Up To Might, And Now Was Queen Of Land And Sea.

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It was the calm and silent night!
Seven hundred years and fifty-three
Had Rome been growing up to might,
And now was queen of land and sea.
No sound was heard of clashing wars,
Peace brooded o'er the hushed domain;
Apollo, Pallas, Jove, and Mars
Held undisturbed their ancient reign
In the solemn midnight,
Centuries ago.
-- Alfred Domett (1811-)
-- Christmas Hymn

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