VAGRANT VERSE
BETHLEHEM. Cold was the earth and all the star.. But Mary Mother smiled Where in the manger of an inn Lay warm the Holy Child. The ox was host upon that night Unto the King of all; He gave for incense meadowy breath, For shelter his rude stall. Not all the cold of earth and man Can pierce the heaven mild, Where warm against her leaping heart A Mother clasps Her Child. O miracle of utmost love, How God grew greater when He stooped to be a helpless babe Beside the hearths of men. Ix>ng ages since—and still in joy, In loneliness and tears, We kneel unto a Little Boy Who smiles down through the years —Wilbur Underwood, in Reedy’s
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Southland Times, Issue 19434, 24 December 1924, Page 4
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122VAGRANT VERSE Southland Times, Issue 19434, 24 December 1924, Page 4
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