The poetical works of Robert Stephen Hawker Edited from the original manuscripts and annotated copies together with a prefatory notice and bibliography by Alfred Wallis |
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A CANTICLE FOR CHRISTMAS, 1874. |
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A CANTICLE FOR CHRISTMAS, 1874.
Lo! a pure Maiden, meek and mild,
Yearns to embrace an awful Child!
Those limbs, her tenderest touch might win:
Yet thrill they with the God within!
Yearns to embrace an awful Child!
Those limbs, her tenderest touch might win:
Yet thrill they with the God within!
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She gazes! and what doth she see?
A gleaming Infant on her knee!
She pauses: can she dare to press
That Glory with a fond caress?
A gleaming Infant on her knee!
She pauses: can she dare to press
That Glory with a fond caress?
Yet 'tis her flesh: that Form so fair!
Her very blood is bounding there!
The mother's heart the victory won:
It is her God! it is her Son!
Her very blood is bounding there!
The mother's heart the victory won:
It is her God! it is her Son!
Hers the proud gladness mothers know,
Without a thrill, without a throe;
And Mary—Mary undefiled,
Claims for her breast that awful Child!
Without a thrill, without a throe;
And Mary—Mary undefiled,
Claims for her breast that awful Child!
1874.
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