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Yesterday with exultation 
Yesterday with exultation joined the world in celebration of her promised Savior's birth; yesterday the angel-nation poured the strains of jubilation o'er the Monarch born on earth: 
But today, O deacon glorious, by thy faith and deeds victorious, Stephen, champion renowned, thee we hail who, triumph gaining, mid the faithless faith sustaining, first of martyr saints wast found. 
For the crown that fadeth never bear thy murderer's brief endeavor; victory waits to end the strife: death shall be thy life's beginning, and life's losing be the winning of the true and better life. 
from Heri mundus exultavit 
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