A perpetual memory and other poems: By Henry Newbolt: With brief memoirs by Walter de la Mare and Ralph Furse and a portrait by Sir William Rothenstein |
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The Nativity
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The Nativity
Thou art ours, thou knowest, O God, that thou art ours,
Seeing that we found thee and gave thee heav'nly gifts—
The kingdom the pow'r and the glory of loving,
The life beyond the shadows of Time and of Death.
Seeing that we found thee and gave thee heav'nly gifts—
The kingdom the pow'r and the glory of loving,
The life beyond the shadows of Time and of Death.
Only one gift we gave thee not—we could not give
That imagination of the thoughts of thy heart,
By which, through the portal of our one loveliness
Thou enterest our life, a little son of man.
That imagination of the thoughts of thy heart,
By which, through the portal of our one loveliness
Thou enterest our life, a little son of man.
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