Poems (Waldenburg)/Christmas
For works with similar titles, see Christmas.
CHRISTMAS.
Fall gently snow, in love;
Cover the earth and keep it pure and bright,
For down a thousand centuries this night
Comes Jesus from above.
Cover the earth and keep it pure and bright,
For down a thousand centuries this night
Comes Jesus from above.
O Holy, glorious night!
O greatest tidings ever herald told.
O story ever new and yet so old
O Star of all most bright!
O greatest tidings ever herald told.
O story ever new and yet so old
O Star of all most bright!
That Star we may not see,
The wise men saw and followed from afar,
Nor bring as costly gifts and fragrant myrrh
To His Divinity!
The wise men saw and followed from afar,
Nor bring as costly gifts and fragrant myrrh
To His Divinity!
Still can we bring
Far loftier gifts and praise unto his feet;
Sin-ransomed souls and human love are meet
For thee O, King!
Far loftier gifts and praise unto his feet;
Sin-ransomed souls and human love are meet
For thee O, King!
Bright childhood's glee,
With holly wreaths, and anthem's jubilee,
And to thy poor kind deeds of charity—
These are for Thee.
With holly wreaths, and anthem's jubilee,
And to thy poor kind deeds of charity—
These are for Thee.
O Jesu come!
With us abide, O Savior born this night!
And through the fleeting years be thou our light
And lead us Home!
With us abide, O Savior born this night!
And through the fleeting years be thou our light
And lead us Home!