Christus

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Excerpt from Christus: A Story of Love Canto the First The brooding night yet held the silent land In that deep stillness of the quiet stars That lends itself to mystery and awe, The early scent of honeyed flowers was near, Rising in incense, filling thought with dreams: Through the expectant air came consciousness Of dawn, and tender things springing new born From out the dark. When lo! arose a star Where in the East for long Wise Men had watched, And cradled for this rising light old truths. More luminous by far than all the rest It hung, God's lamp, above a wayside inn, A simple kahn, where lay at this high hour The Christ, with beasts of toil, on lowly bed, God's truth to earth new born as Virgin's child, That as the pure in heart see God all gifts Are theirs, e'en this the crown of Motherhood, Granting to love a new and higher right. Now o'er the earth on strains of music comes The dawn, while trembling shepherds watch and pray As heaven opens on their wondering gaze, With gleam of cherubim and rush of wings, About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.