CLOUDS OF GLORY
When man 1 ever hope to set A sight like my first Christmas licet--1 came in from the dark and cold Prepared for gifts and games foretold, Hut not for that tictc sense in me Of brightness and. immensity.
Sweeter than frankincense and myrrh The burning sharpness <f the fir; Each lighted candle was a dart Piercing with tinimaglncd art; The sugar angel at the top Attacked my heart and made it stop; The drawing-room became a place Swimming in hushed and starry space.
Time scatters dust on me and mine; Th: tree—the tree is still divine! Can earth, repeat that rapturous gleam. Or ncaven prove such a heavenly dreamt
—T. 11. Eriedlacnder, in the '‘Spectator."
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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 72, 18 December 1928, Page 47 (Supplement)
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119CLOUDS OF GLORY Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 72, 18 December 1928, Page 47 (Supplement)
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