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But it also reached the ears of Nature :
It made earth dance with joy ! It filled the fields with bright green laughter !
Everywhere excited birds did not know whether to sit on branches and sing at the top of their voices; or to fly across the blue air, cutting it with the flapping of merry wings !
The sky looked lovingly over the palace with millions of stars that are the eyes of the sky; and their crystal beams pierced through the palacetop and reached, through the roof, the bed-chamber in which the queen was resting on a soft silken bed.
And the clouds floated over the kingdom like milch-cows with udders heavy with milk. They rained lovely showers which fed the harvests earth was getting ready for the kingdom.
But the most wonderful thing that happened was the way in which, even without being asked, other kings from other kingdoms arrived to bend before his throne and offer him homage saying:
"We have heard the glad tidings and have come all the way from our distant kingdoms to offer our affectionate blessings to the babe who is about to arrive.
Something tells us he is going to rule, some day, not over kingdoms of the kind kings we rule, but over the most precious Kingdom of kingdoms. : the human heart.
The hearts of millions and millions, and for ages and ages ! since he himself has come out of
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