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قراءة كتاب A Christmas Faggot
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A CHRISTMAS FAGGOT
THAT AT THE NAME OF JESUS EVERY KNEE SHOULD BOWTO THE GLORY OF GOD THE FATHER·
A CHRISTMAS FAGGOT
BY
ALFRED GURNEY, M.A.
VICAR OF S. BARNABAS', PIMLICO
AUTHOR OF 'THE VISION OF THE EUCHARIST AND OTHER POEMS' ETC.
And fit it is we finde a roome
To welcome Him. The nobler part
Of all the house here is the heart,
Which we will give Him, and bequeath
This hollie and this ivie wreath
To do Him honour who's our King,
The Lord of all this revelling'
Herrick, A Christmas Carol
LONDON
KEGAN PAUL, TRENCH, & CO., 1 PATERNOSTER SQUARE
1884
(The rights of translation and of reproduction are reserved)
ETHEL, ALBINIA,
CYRIL, BASIL,
BERTRAM, WILFRID,
LOUISE, HELEN,
ARTHUR.
With a gold and silver wing
Gently stirred the wave baptismal,
Heard ye not their carolling
Who of old to Eastern shepherds
Heralded their King?
Still those angel-voices tell
How God's river feeds the fountain
Opened by Emmanuel,
Yielding the baptismal waters
Of salvation's well.
Love-begotten from the dead;
Will you make a gallant promise
When my verses you have read—
'We will trace life's lovely river
To the Fountain-head'?
PREFACE.
Most of the following poems have appeared in the 'S. Barnabas' Parish Magazine.' For my godchildren and my people I have made them up into a little bundle of sticks—a Christmas faggot to feed the fires in the winter palace of our King.
It is the Incarnation that justifies all joy, and song is the expression of joy. The Gospel Songs all celebrate the Great Nativity. Birth and marriage are the occasions most sacred to mirth and music among men; and Christmas is at once the Birthday and the Marriage Festival of Humanity.
Glad and thankful shall I be if any song of mine should help to fan the flame of rejoicing love in any Christian heart at this holy and happy season.
CONTENTS.
| PAGE | |
| YULE TIDE | 1 |
| THE MADONNA DI SAN SISTO | 6 |
| BETHLEHEM GATE | 11 |
| SAINT JOSEPH | 16 |
| A CRADLE SONG | 18 |
| A CRADLED CHILD | 23 |
| AN EMPTY CRADLE | 26 |
| NEW YEAR'S EVE | 28 |
| THE VICTIM | 30 |
| THE DAYSMAN | 33 |
| THE PHYSICIAN | 36 |
| THE POET | 40 |
| THREE SISTERS | 43 |
| A CHRISTMAS PUZZLE | 46 |
| FOUR EPIPHANIES | 48 |
| THE CHILDREN'S EUCHARIST | 56 |
| THE | |