A Christmas Sonnet
Wild Earth--where all seems vanity and woe,
Old Earth--enmeshed in seasons of belief,
Sad Earth--where all the glory that we know
Is Man, a half-blind Phoenix, fighting grief--
There was a time when time was overcome,
When down the ladder Jacob dreamed about,
A Spirit came to find terrestrial home;
It nestled in a Child; it came without
Our clarions of pomp, without brass praise-
A Child, O Earth, a star for inner night,
For creatures in a dark and temporal haze,
A gift of God, perennial delight.
No doubt you trembled, Earth, so great the care
In love for Man to give and, giving, share.
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