Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, CHRISTMAS, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER


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First Line: We love to think of bethlehem
Last Line: Comes yet on christmas day.
Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs.
Subject(s): Babies; Bethlehem, Palestine; Birth; Children; Christmas; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Infants; Child Birth; Midwifery; Childhood; Nativity, The


WE love to think of Bethlehem,
That little mountain town
To which on earth's first Christmas Day
Our blessed Lord came down;
A lowly manger for His bed,
The cattle near in stall,
There, cradled close in Mary's arms,
He slept, the Lord of all.

If we had been in Bethlehem,
We too had hasted fain
To see the Babe whose little face
Knew neither care nor pain.
Like any little child of ours
He came unto His own,
Though Cross and shame before him stretched
His pathway to His throne.

If we had dwelt in Bethlehem,
We would have followed fast,
And where the Star had led our feet
Have knelt ere dawn was past.
Our gifts, our songs, our prayers had been
An offering, as He lay,
The Blessed Babe of Bethlehem,
In Mary's arms that day.

Now breaks the latest Christmas Morn!
Again the angels sing,
And far and near the children throng
Their happy hymns to bring.
All heaven is stirred! All earth is glad!
For down the shining way
The Lord who came to Bethlehem
Comes yet on Christmas Day.





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