<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=117654" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Hymn for Christmas Day</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Almighty Framer of the Skies!<br>O let our pure devotion rise,<br>Like Incense in thy Sight!<br>Wrapt in impenetrable Shade<br>The Texture of our Souls were made<br>Till thy Command gave light.<br>The Sun of Glory gleam'd the Ray,<br>Refin'd the Darkness into Day,<br>And bid the Vapours fly;<br>Impell'd by his eternal Love<br>He left his Palaces above<br>To cheer our gloomy Sky.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">How shall we celebrate the day,<br>When God appeared in mortal clay,<br>The mark of worldly scorn;<br>When the Archangel's heavenly Lays,<br>Attempted the Redeemer's Praise<br>And hail'd Salvation's Morn!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A Humble Form the Godhead wore,<br>The Pains of Poverty he bore,<br>To gaudy Pomp unknown;<br>Tho' in a human walk he trod<br>Still was the Man Almighty God<br>In Glory all his own.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Despis'd, oppress'd, the Godhead bears<br>The Torments of this Vale of tears;<br>Nor bade his Vengeance rise;<br>He saw the Creatures he had made,<br>Revile his Power, his Peace invade;<br>He saw with Mercy's Eyes.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">How shall we celebrate his Name,<br>Who groan'd beneath a Life of shame<br>In all Afflictions tried!<br>The Soul is raptured to concieve<br>A Truth, which Being must believe,<br>The God Eternal died.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My Soul exert thy Powers, adore,<br>Upon Devotion's plumage sar<br>To celebrate the Day;<br>The God from whom Creation sprung<br>Shall animate my grateful Tongue;<br>From him I'll catch the Lay!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Thomas+Chatterton">Thomas Chatterton</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=117654" data-title="A Hymn for Christmas Day de Thomas Chatterton" data-description="Almighty Framer of the Skies!/O let our pure devotion rise,/Like Incense in thy Sight!/Wrapt in impenetrable Shade/The Texture of our Souls were made/Till thy Command gave light./The Sun of Glory gleam'd the Ray,/Refin'd the Darkness into Day,/And..."></div> </div> </div>

solid border dashed border dotted border double border groove border ridge border inset border outset border no border blue green red purple cyan gold silver black