Wood-notes and Church-bells By the Rev. Richard Wilton |
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ON A STATUETTE OF THE CHILD JESUS
AMONG CORN AND GRAPES. |
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ON A STATUETTE OF THE CHILD JESUS AMONG CORN AND GRAPES.
Amid the Vine's red fruit and golden corn,See where the sweet child Jesus smiling plays;
His small right hand a wheaten sceptre sways,
While his left hand the clustered grapes adorn.
His face is pure and fresh as breath of morn,
And like a star He scatters gentle rays;
With loveliness He crowns the sinless days
To which for our salvation He was born.
Too soon I see Him like “a corn of wheat,”
Drooping and fallen to the thankless ground;
Too soon alas! like purple clusters sweet
Rude-crushed, and shedding precious drops around;
But still where Bread and Wine divinely meet,
His glorious strength and cheering grace are found!
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