King Arthur’s Waes-Hael
"King Arthur's Waes-Hael" weaves the ancient Anglo-Saxon wassail toast into a devotional Christmas ceremony, where the drinking bowl — shaped like a woman's breast — becomes a sacred vessel linking knightly revelry to the mystery of the nursing Christ child. Each stanza calls "Waes-hael" (be whole) and "Drink-hael" while urging reverence rather than abandon, drawing celebrants into a hushed, almost liturgical meditation on Bethlehem's infant and the divine warmth of a mother's embrace.
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