Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, NEW THINGS AND OLD; CHRISTMAS, 1941, by MARY THERESE MADELEVA


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NEW THINGS AND OLD; CHRISTMAS, 1941, by                    
First Line: The dark is shattered
Last Line: On all these things.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wolff, Mary Evaline
Subject(s): Christmas; Nativity, The


The dark is shattered
With wild, new fear;
An ass's feet stumbling
Is the sound that I hear.

The night is brighter
Than day should be;
A strange star's splendor
Is the light that I see.

And above the terror
Of earth and sky
I can hear, if I listen,
A young Child's cry;

I can see, if I look,
Legions of wings,
And a woman who ponders
On all these things.





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