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CHRISTMAS AFTER WAR by KATHARINE LEE BATES

Poet Analysis

First Line: SHALL MISERY MAKE MIRTH
Last Line: THEIR BETHLEHEM.
Subject(s): CHRISTMAS; GRIEF; WAR; NATIVITY, THE; SORROW; SADNESS;

SHALL misery make mirth,
Lord of our disbelief?
What gift of joy has earth?
@3Bring me your grief.@1

How shall old fables heal
Our world of woe and sin?
@3When you through fable feel
The truth within.@1

There is no guiding star;
The heavens are black and blind.
@3The Magi journeyed far;
So must mankind.@1

What singing angels press
Bright wings down these wild skies?
@3Courage and Faithfulness
And Sacrifice.@1

Madonna? Child? Are we
Shepherds to seek for them?
Love! Peace! Let your heart be
Their Bethlehem.



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