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You have selected: SUMMER SUN OR WINTER SKIES (Words by Shirley Erena Murray) from the Ron Klusmeier Anthology. Subscribers may download arrangements using the links in the right hand column. Log in at left (first link beneath "The Catalogue") to activate the columns on the right.

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Lyrics:

Summer sun or winter skies,
Christmas comes —
shepherds, angels, lullabies,
words recorded by the wise:
read it in the book —
take another look…

Shadows track the hawk in flight
Christmas now —
children born in fire and fight,
silent night a violent night,
hawks are in control
of a nation’s soul

There where terror plies its trade
Christmas now —
children learn to be afraid,
minefields of distrust are laid,
evil is in force
on a winning course

Child of peace, God’s human face,
Christmas now —
come to plead war’s counter-case,
bring the dove a nesting place,
though her wings are torn,
though her blood is drawn

Winter skies or summer sun
Christmas comes —
still the threads of hope are spun,
goodness will outclass the gun,
evil has no tooth
that can kill the truth.