<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=117896" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The House of Christmas</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">There fared a mother driven forth<br>Out of an inn to roam;<br>In the place where she was homeless<br>All men are at home.<br>The crazy stable close at hand,<br>With shaking timber and shifting sand,<br>Grew a stronger thing to abide and stand<br>Than the square stones of Rome.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For men are homesick in their homes,<br>And strangers under the sun,<br>And they lay on their heads in a foreign land<br>Whenever the day is done.<br>Here we have battle and blazing eyes,<br>And chance and honour and high surprise,<br>But our homes are under miraculous skies<br>Where the yule tale was begun.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A Child in a foul stable,<br>Where the beasts feed and foam;<br>Only where He was homeless<br>Are you and I at home;<br>We have hands that fashion and heads that know,<br>But our hearts we lost - how long ago!<br>In a place no chart nor ship can show<br>Under the sky's dome.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">This world is wild as an old wives' tale,<br>And strange the plain things are,<br>The earth is enough and the air is enough<br>For our wonder and our war;<br>But our rest is as far as the fire-drake swings<br>And our peace is put in impossible things<br>Where clashed and thundered unthinkable wings<br>Round an incredible star.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To an open house in the evening<br>Home shall men come,<br>To an older place than Eden<br>And a taller town than Rome.<br>To the end of the way of the wandering star,<br>To the things that cannot be and that are,<br>To the place where God was homeless<br>And all men are at home.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=G.K.+Chesterton">G.K. Chesterton</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=117896" data-title="The House of Christmas de G.K. Chesterton" data-description="There fared a mother driven forth/Out of an inn to roam;/In the place where she was homeless/All men are at home./The crazy stable close at hand,/With shaking timber and shifting sand,/Grew a stronger thing to abide and stand/Than the square stone..."></div> </div> </div>

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