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 | | Subject: A Carol for Children Thu Nov 06, 2008 9:06 pm | |
| A Carol For Children
By Ogden Nash
God rest you merry, Innocents,
let nothing you dismay,
Let nothing wound an eager heart
Upon this Christmas Day
Your's be the genial holly wreaths,
The stockings and the tree;
An aged world to you bequeaths
It's own forgotten glee.
Soon, soon enough come crueler gifts,
The anger and the tears
Between you now there sparsely drifts
A handful yet of years
Oh, dimly, dimly glows the star
Through the electric throng;
The bidding in temple and bazaar
drowns out the silver song.
The ancient altars smoke afresh,
The ancient idols stir
Faint in the reek of burning flesh
Sink frankincense and myrrh.
Gaspar, Balthazar, Melchior!
Where are your offerings now?
What greetings to the Prince of War,
His darkly branded brow?
Two ultimate laws alone we know,
The ledger and the sword
So far away, so long ago,
We lost the infant Lord.
Only the children clasp His hand;
His voice speaks low to them
And still for them the shining band
Wings over Bethlehem
God rest you merry, Innocents,
while Innocence endures.
A sweeter Christmas than we to ours
May you bequeath to yours. | |
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