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    A Christmas Faggot
    A Christmas Faggot
    A Christmas Faggot
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    A Christmas Faggot

    By Alfred Gurney

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 25, 2013
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      A Christmas Faggot - Alfred Gurney

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of A Christmas Faggot, by Alfred Gurney

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      Title: A Christmas Faggot

      Author: Alfred Gurney

      Release Date: January 20, 2009 [EBook #27851]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A CHRISTMAS FAGGOT ***

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      by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

      A CHRISTMAS FAGGOT

      THAT AT THE NAME OF JESUS EVERY KNEE SHOULD BOW

      TO 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.

      'The Darling of the world is come,

      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)

      TO

      MY GODCHILDREN

      ETHEL, ALBINIA,

      CYRIL, BASIL,

      BERTRAM, WILFRID,

      LOUISE, HELEN,

      ARTHUR.

      When the Angel of the waters

      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?

      To the shepherds of His people

      Still those angel-voices tell

      How God's river feeds the fountain

      Opened by Emmanuel,

      Yielding the baptismal waters

      Of salvation's well.

      Children, you have passed those waters,

      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'?

      Loch Leven: 1884.

      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

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