Now, remember, you’re all invited to post comments on the weekly poems. Here’s one I recently discovered. Have a Merry Christmas!
Christmastide
Love came down at Christmas,
Love all lovely, Love Divine;
Love was born at Christmas,
Star and Angels gave the sign.
Worship we the Godhead,
Love Incarnate, Love Divine;
Worship we our Jesus:
But wherewith for sacred sign?
Love shall be our token,
Love be yours and love be mine,
Love to God and all men,
Love for plea and gift and sign.
–Christina Rossetti
Also, since it’s Christmas this week, one of my favourite Christmas carol stanzas:
God of God,
Light of Light,
Lo! he abhors not the Virgin’s womb;
Very God,
Begotten not created;
O come, let us adore him,
O come, let us adore him,
O come, let us adore him, Christ the Lord.
-from “O Come All ye faithful,” trans. from 18th c. Latin by Canon F. Oakeley, W. T. Brooke, and others.
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