Song of Incarnation
December 24, 2010 at 8:27 pm 1 comment
No stately room nor royal robes
surround the newborn.
Sufficient are a pauper’s clothes
and stable forlorn.
Dominions, empires, kings shall pass
and be forgotten:
for Love’s sweet King has come to us,
of Love begotten.
But hold him not in fabled birth
with star above him.
Christ reigns in heaven, and lives on earth
in all who love him.
Text (c) 2000, set to a traditional Ukrainian tune
Entry filed under: faith, poetry, worship. Tags: carol, christmas, incarnation, no stately room, ukrainian.
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John | May 25, 2011 at 3:18 am
Love comes to here in time,
and numbers All the things
of Beauty in the House.
A single room is shown to be
– A Unity, within and every where.
No point of view is stood apart.
No word is made to say,
This space is empty,
or, this place is full.
Only Light Itself Is Come
– A Merest Touch of Brightness
Neither mind nor body can deny.
It Is the Heart’s Explanation of Reality.
It Is Reality, Plain Spoken To the Heart
– and By the Heart Alone.
It Is the Beautiful, Itself.