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The Mystic’s Christmas · Ririro.com - Poetry

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  Speaker 1: The mystics Christmas all hail. The bells of Christmas rang
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  Speaker 1: all hail. The monks at Christmas sang the merry monks
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  Speaker 1: who kept with cheer the gladdest day of all their year,
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  Speaker 1: But still apart, unmoved thereat. A pious elder brother sat
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  Speaker 1: silent in his accustomed place, with God's sweet peace upon
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  Speaker 1: his face. Why sittest thou, Thus his brethren cried, It
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  Speaker 1: is the blessed Christmas tide. The Christmas lights are all aglow,
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  Speaker 1: The sacred lilies bud and blow above our heads. The
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  Speaker 1: joy bells ring without the happy children sing, and all
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  Speaker 1: God's creatures hail the morn on which the Holy Christ
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  Speaker 1: was born. Rejoice with us, no more rebuke our gladness
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  Speaker 1: with thy quiet look. The gray monk answered, Keep I
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  Speaker 1: pray even as ye list the Lord's birthday. Let heathen
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  Speaker 1: yule fires flicker red, where thronged refectory feasts are spread
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  Speaker 1: with mystery, play and mask and mime, and wait songs
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  Speaker 1: speed the holy time. The blindest faith may haply save.
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  Speaker 1: The Lord accepts the things we have and reverence, how
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  Speaker 1: soe'er it strays, may find at last the shining ways
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  Speaker 1: they needs must grope who cannot see the blade before
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  Speaker 1: the ear must be as ye are feeling, I have felt,
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  Speaker 1: and where ye dwell, I too have dwelt. But now
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  Speaker 1: beyond the things of sense, beyond occasions and events, I know,
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  Speaker 1: through God's exceeding grace, release from form and time and space.
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  Speaker 1: I listen from no mortal tongue to hear the song
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  Speaker 1: the angels sung, and wait within myself to know the
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  Speaker 1: Christmas lilies bud and blow. The outward symbols disappear. From
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  Speaker 1: him whose inward sight is clear and small. Must be
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  Speaker 1: the choice of days to him who fills them all
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  Speaker 1: with praise. Keep while you need it, brother's mind, with
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  Speaker 1: honest seal your Christmas Sign. But judge not him who
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  Speaker 1: every morn feels in his heart, the Lord Christ born