_Into the West with 'Gloria.'_
"Hear! In this lighted room I have found"
_Ye that seek, O sing 'Nowell'!_
"The spell that worketh underground."
_Ye that doubt, a 'Gloria.'_

"I have found it, even I,"
_Ye that are lowly, sing 'Nowell'!_
"The secret of this alchemy!"
_Ye that are poor, a 'Gloria.'_
"Look, your tinsel turneth to gold."
_Sing 'Nowell! Nowell! Nowell!'_
"Your dust to a hand for love to hold!"
_In Excelsis Gloria._

"Lay the axe at my young stem now!"
_Woodman, woodman, sing 'Nowell.'_
"Set a star on every bough!"
_In Excelsis Gloria!_
"Hall and cot shall see me stand,"
_Rich and poor man, sing 'Nowell'!_
"Giver of gifts from Elfin-land."
_Oberon, answer 'Gloria.'_

"Hung by the hilt on your Christmas-tree"
_Little children, sing 'Nowell'!_
"Your wooden sword is a cross for me."
_Emperors, a 'Gloria.'_
"I have found that fabulous stone"
_Ocean-worthies, cry 'Nowell.'_
"Which turneth all things into one,"
_Wise men all, a 'Gloria.'_

"It is not ruby nor anything"
_Jeweller, jeweller, sing 'Nowell'!_
"Fit for the crown of an earthly King:"
_In Excelsis Gloria!_
"It is not here! It is not there!"
_Traveller, rest and cry 'Nowell'!_
"It is one thing and everywhere!"
_Heaven and Earth sing 'Gloria.'_

"It is the earth, the moon, the sun,"
_Mote in the sunbeam, sing 'Nowell'!_
"And all the stars that march as one."
_In Excelsis Gloria!_
"Here, by the touch of it, I can see"
_Sing, O Life, a sweet Nowell!_
"The world's King die on a Christmas-tree."
_Answer, Death, with 'Gloria.'_

"Here, not set in a realm apart,"
_East and West are one 'Nowell'!_
"Holy Land is in your Heart!"
_North and South one 'Gloria'!_
"Death is a birth, birth is a death,"
_Love is all, O sing 'Nowell'!_
"And London one with Nazareth."
_And all the World a 'Gloria.'_

"And angels over your heart's roof sing"
_Birds of God, O pour 'Nowell'!_
"That a poor man's son is the Son of a King!"
_Out of your heart this 'Gloria'!_
"Round the world you'll not away"
_In your own soul, they sing 'Nowell'!_
"From Holy Land this Christmas Day!"
_In your own soul, this 'Gloria.'_

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