TO TIM SACRED HEART: A CHRISTMAS OFFERING.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume LI, Issue 50, 17 December 1924, Page 15

TO TIM SACRED HEART: A CHRISTMAS OFFERING.

Dear Sacred Heart, I bear no gift of gold, No frankincense I offer Thee to-night, As did the Kings in Bethlehem of old, •f!,;.AVhen,. first the world was flooded with Thy s- y light; : - /But 0 ! l x bring a gift more precious far, -../More prized by Thee than all the gold of earth ; As came the shepherds who beheld the star, I come with love to sing Thy glorious birth— The love of one. whom Thou hast often blest * And lifted from the midst of sin and death, .Whom Thou hast often solaced and caressed >And shielded ! from the tempter’s fiery breath ;■ : ••• I comp .With faith, unharmed by stress or storm, ‘ ' A faith kept strong by Thy untiring care, A faith;- Thy generous friendship has kept warm V When wily foes its. fervor would impair. I come willl hope— a. bump to guide my feet, . , lo where Tlty. smile .a welcome gives to A-alk To where Thy voice, than heavenly harp more sweet, Our wandering souls would rally and recall ; 0! may my gifts of Faith and Hope and Love Be dear to'Thee, 0 Sacred Heart to-night, And one day open Heaven’s Gate above To let me dwell in Everlasting Light!