Thursday, December 15, 2022

Children Following the Star on Christmas Eve - poem

 

Lawrence Hall

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Children Following the Star

                                                                   on Christmas Eve

 

For Jack and Cate

 

Who aren’t exactly children now

Except to us old folks who love them

 

      Good children dress warmly to watch for the star

      The star of Bethlehem, the shepherds’ star

      The star of the magi, true-guiding star

      And more than all of these, the children’s star

 

      If children fall asleep during the royal night

      It is fitting and just; they wait for the Light - 

      The star has led them in its arcing flight

      To worship God in Christmas’ ancient rite

 

      Then home to a late supper, and so to their beds -

      The Infant Jesus blesses our dear little sleepyheads!

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