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Away in a manger / William James Kirkpatrick -- Isaiah 9:2-6 -- Luke 2: 1-20 -- Pedida da la posada : asking for lodging -- Stable / Gabriela Mistral -- Barn / Elizabeth Coatsworth -- Presepio / Joseph Brodsky -- Puppy who wanted a boy / Jane Thayer -- Christmas superstitions (from Christmas in the mountains) / Hubert J. Davis -- Christmas Eve, Nochebuena / Cesar Vallejo -- Carol of the birds, El cant dels ocells (Old Spanish carol from Catalonia) -- Silent Night / Joseph Mohr & Franz Gruber -- Joy to the world / Isaac Watts & G. F. Handel -- Christmas sparrow / Billy Collins -- Christmas Day in the morning / Pearl S. Buck -- Christmas Day at sea / Joseph Conrad -- Christmas / Vladimir Nabokov -- A Christmas memory / Truman Capote -- Blond / Natasha Trethewey -- All I want for Christmas is you / Mariah Carey & Walter Afanasieff -- Hark! The herald angels sing / Charles Wesley, George Whitefield & Martin Madan, and Felix Mendelssohn -- Peace / Henry Vaughan -- Letter to John Hancock / George Washington -- Christmas bells / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- Christmas truce, World War I (from The London Times) -- Letter to Tommy, World War II / Lt. Col. Ralph Noonan -- Telegram to the U.S. Ambassador, Moscow / W. Averell Harriman -- A Christmas sermon on peace / Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Christmas e-mails from Iraq / Capt. Trent Weston & Sgt. Mike Mira -- Happy Xmas (war is over) / John Lennon & Yoko Ono -- |
