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First Line: How can they honor him - the humble lad
Last Line: With deathless words—would kneel again and weep.
Variant Title(s): Christmas 1930
Subject(s): Christmas; Religion; Nativity, The; Theology


How can they honor Him—the humble lad
Whose feet struck paths of beauty through the earth—
With all the drunken revelry, the mad
Barter of goods that marks His day of birth?
How can they honor Him with flame and din,
Whose soul was peaceful as a moon-swept sea,
Whose thoughts were somber with the world's great sin
Even while He trod the hill to Calvary?

I think if Jesus should return and see
This hollow blasphemy, this day of horror,
The heart that languished in Gethsemane
Would know again as great and deep a sorrow,
And He who charmed the troubled waves to sleep
With deathless words—would kneel again and weep.





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