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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
AVATAR AND THE MANGER, by HARRY WILLIAM NELSON
First Line: Tonight the desert sands / have whispered of
Last Line: Have frankincense and myrrh.
Subject(s): Night; Bedtime
First Line: Tonight the desert sands / have whispered of
Last Line: Have frankincense and myrrh.
Subject(s): Night; Bedtime
Tonight the desert sands
Have whispered of a thing
Come out of stranger lands
Of no remembering.
What, Little One, have You
To do with singing hosts
That only bring anew
A Golgotha of ghosts?
What crossroads of the sky
Led you astray this night?
What was it turned Your eye
To see this earth-bound light?
All through eternity
Forget the stars that stir
Beyond this pale, for we
Have frankincense and myrrh.
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