Christ’s Nativity
"Christ's Nativity" by Henry Vaughan is a devotional poem that opens with a joyful call to waken and celebrate the birth of a King — yet quickly turns inward. The speaker longs to be a bird or star, something pure enough to offer worthy praise, before confessing a darker truth: his own heart feels too filthy to welcome the divine. The poem's emotional power lies in this tension between radiant creation rejoicing freely and a soul that can only plead, humbly, to be made clean.
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