A Christmas Legend

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Through snowy streets one Christmas Eve

Translator: Isa J. Postgate
Tune: ST. AGNES (Dykes)
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Translator: Isa J. Postgate

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First Line:	Through snowy streets one Christmas Eve
Title:	A Christmas Legend
Translator:	Isa J. Postgate
Meter:	8.6.8.6
Source:	German; A Christmas Legend, and other Verses 2nd ed. (London: Simpkin, Marshall, 1889)
Language:	English
Copyright:	Public Domain

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ST. AGNES (Dykes)

John B. Dykes (PHH 147) composed ST. AGNES for [Jesus the Very Thought of Thee]. Dykes named the tune after a young Roman Christian woman who was martyred in A.D. 304 during the reign of Diocletian. St. Agnes was sentenced to death for refusing to marry a nobleman to whom she said, "I am already eng…

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