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A Christmas Faggot - Alfred Gurney
Alfred Gurney
A Christmas Faggot
Published by Good Press, 2019
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EAN 4064066176037
Table of Contents
PREFACE.
YULE TIDE.
BETHLEHEM GATE.
S. JOSEPH.
A CRADLE SONG.
A CRADLED CHILD.
AN EMPTY CRADLE.
NEW YEAR'S EVE.
THE VICTIM.
THE DAYSMAN.
THE PHYSICIAN.
THE POET.
A CHRISTMAS PUZZLE.
FOUR EPIPHANIES. [6]
I.
II.
III.
IV.
THE CHILDREN'S EUCHARIST.
THE GOSPEL SONGS. [7]
I. BENEDICTUS.
II. MAGNIFICAT.
III. NUNC DIMITTIS.
NOTES.
Note A.
Note B.
Note C.
Note D.
Note E.
Note F.
PREFACE.
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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.
YULE TIDE.
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'They bring me sorrow touched with joy,
The merry merry bells of Yule.'
Tennyson
, In Memoriam.
The
Royal Birthday dawns again,
A stricken world to bless;
And sufferers forget their pain,
And mourners their distress.
Love sings to-day; her eyes so fair
With happy tears are wet;
She is too humble to despair,
Too faithful to forget.
Her voice is very soft and sweet,
Her heart is brave and strong;