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There's a
beautiful
Story, so I've been
told,
Very sweet, and tender¹,
And true, and old,
About a star,
And the wonderful birth,
Long ago, of a Christ-Child
On the earth;
And now, every year
At a certain time
The bells everywhere
Ring out their chime,
And children gather²
From near and from far,
To sing of that wonderful
Child, and the Star.

1 tender   

adj.嫩的，柔软的；脆弱的，纤细的；温柔的

参考例句：

• At the tender age of seventeen I left home.早在十七岁的小小年纪，我就离开了家。
• We were sent to boarding school at a tender age.很小的时候我们就被送到了寄宿学校。

2 gather   

vt.使聚集，使聚拢；采集，搜集，收；渐增，积聚，恢复；推测；vi.聚集，聚拢；增加

参考例句：

• He likes to gather stamps in his spare time.他业余时间喜欢收集邮票。
• I gather information from the internet.我从互联网搜集资料。