Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE TOY CROSS, by RODEN BERKELEY WRIOTHESLEY NOEL


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First Line: My little boy at christmas-tide
Last Line: Clasp'd for eternity!
Subject(s): Christmas; Crosses; Nativity, The


MY little boy at Christmas-tide
Made me a toy cross;
Two sticks he did, in boyish pride,
With brazen nail emboss.

Ah me! how soon, on either side
His dying bed's true cross,
She and I were crucified,
Bemoaning our life-loss!

But He, whose arms in death spread wide
Upon the holy tree,
Were clasp'd about him when he died --
Clasp'd for eternity!





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