Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, COMES TRUTH! COMES BEAUTY! COMES LOVE! (PRINCESS HELEN'S CHRISTMAS), by JOHN W. STOCKWELL


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COMES TRUTH! COMES BEAUTY! COMES LOVE! (PRINCESS HELEN'S CHRISTMAS), by                    
First Line: To hear, to speak, to see
Last Line: Helen keller's eyes see the shining star!
Subject(s): Beauty; Christmas; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Love; Truth; Nativity, The


To hear, to speak, to see --
For her it could not be.
Her spirit's pinions prison -- pressed and all untried:
In an abyss
Of crushing loneliness
The Princess Helen sighed;

Lost in a vault of awful silence,
Like a rose caught in a vise of steel,
Aching, her soul would yield its fragrance
To the press of life it could only feel.

That sigh from out her "night"
Comes to the God of Light,
Once seen by John a horse of shining white to ride.
Strong is This One
All errors to atone,
For Truth rides at His Side.

Eager a teacher then was showing,
While her fingers Mercury's magic sought,
Water, in slipping softness flowing
In the cupping hand of the child -- and caught.

Now God a living blade
The name for "water" made;
The Vulcan vise it severed -- lo! the "rose" is free!
Banished her "night."
Her fingers filled with light,
The Princess now can "see."

Pegasus may Minerva's learning
From the mountain top to the plain send down:
But to the Princess came the yearning
For the God-sent wisdom -- the spirit's own.

A rose would reach to God,
With beauty from the sod,
To mingle with the angels' deepest, highest love.
Free now her soul
The Princess sought the whole
Of beauty from above.

Taught by the God of Light, a writer
Had recorded all that she longed to find.
Vision then came: the way blazed brighter
And the works of Swedenborg flamed her mind.

And thus the King of Kings
A birth of brightness brings --
"Once seen by John a horse of shining white to ride";
Bethlehem born
Again He comes -- like Dawn;
And Love lives at His Side.

Found in the glow of joy supernal,
As a rose serene where the flowers are:
Bethlehem lights the Truth Eternal --
Helen Keller's eyes see the Shining Star!





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