DECEMBER TWENTY-FOURTH
by Eleanor Slater
Tomorrow you are born again
Who died so many times.
Do you like the candle-light,
Do you like the chimes?
Do you stop to wonder
Why men never see
How very closely Bethlehem
Approaches Calvary?
Source: Christ in Poetry (1952), an anthology compiled and edited by Thomas Curtis Clark and Hazel Davis Clark
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