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Text:A Stable Lamp Is Lighted
Author:Richard Wilbur
Tune:SITTLER
Composer:Paul Manz

2. A Stable Lamp Is Lighted

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First Line: A stable lamp is lighted
Title: A Stable Lamp Is Lighted
Author: Richard Wilbur
Meter: 76 76 66 76
Publication Date: 2009
Source: "A Christmas Hymn" from Advice to a Prophet and other Poems
Copyright: Copyright 1961, 1989 Richard Wilbur & Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
Tune Information
Name: SITTLER
Composer: Paul Manz
Meter: 76 76 66 76
Key: g minor
Copyright: Copyright 1987 Augsburg-Fortress.



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