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Praise every morning

MORNING has broken…’ I hummed quietly to myself as I stared, first, eastwards, to see if the sky had begun to lighten, then upwards into the deep, deep inky blue to gaze at the stars. ‘Like the first morning…’ Our late village priest claimed that the original tune, written for , an Irish spell to make you invisible,

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