Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, CHRISTMAS STILL LIVES, by CLARENCE HAWKES


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CHRISTMAS STILL LIVES, by                    
First Line: There's a message, sweet and tender
Last Line: The hope of all humanity.
Subject(s): Jesus Christ


There's a message, sweet and tender,
Coming on the winter wind,
And it thrills us with its splendor,
Filling heart and filling mind.
It's the story of Christ lying
In a manger, long ago;
Though the race with hate seems dying
Yet we cannot let Him go.
Bright above all sin and sham,
Little town of Bethlehem.

Mothers love it for the feeling
Of the babe upon their breast,
Fathers love it for the healing,
Giving, for life's turmoil, rest.
Children love it for the picture
Of the mother and the Child,
And the kneeling Magi's rapture,
And the cattle, wondering, mild.
Thus at Christmas, evermore,
Christ comes knocking at our door.

When the last brave page is written
And life's scroll is put away,
Conquerors will be forgotten,
Only good things live for aye.
Then the church will raise its steeple
Where war's bastions darkly stood,
This the mandate of the people,
This their heritage of good.
Then will Christ and Christmas be
The hope of all humanity.





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