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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=374221" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Three Kings</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">WHEN the star in the East was lit to shine<br>The three kings journeyed to Palestine;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They came from the uttermost parts of earth<br>With long trains laden with gifts of worth.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The first king rode on a camel's back,<br>He came from the land where the kings are black,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Bringing treasures desired of kings,<br>Rubies and ivory and precious things.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">An elephant carried the second king,<br>He came from the land of the sun-rising,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And gems and gold and spices he bare<br>With broidered raiment for kings to wear.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The third king came without steed or train<br>From the misty land where the white kings reign.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He bore no gifts save the myrrh in his hand,<br>For he came on foot from a far-off land.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now when they had travelled a-many days<br>Through tangled forests and desert ways,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">By angry seas and by paths thorn-set<br>On Christmas Vigil the three kings met.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And over their meeting a shrouded sky<br>Made dark the star they had travelled by.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then the first king spake and he frowned and said:<br>'By some ill spell have our feet been led,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Now I see in the darkness the fools we are<br>To follow the light of a lying star.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Let us fool no more, but like kings and men<br>Each get him home to his land again!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then the second king with the weary face,<br>Gold-tinct as the sun of his reigning place,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Lifted sad eyes to the clouds and said,<br>'It was but a dream and the dream is sped.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'We dreamed of a star that rose new and fair,<br>But it sets in the night of the old despair.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Yet night is faithful though stars betray,<br>It will lead to our kingdoms far away.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then spake the king who had fared alone<br>From the far-off kingdom, the white-hung throne:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'O brothers, brothers, so very far<br>Ye have followed the light of the radiant star,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'And because for a while ye see it not<br>Shall its faithful shining be all forgot?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'On the spirit's pathway the light still lies<br>Though the star be hid from our longing eyes.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'To-morrow our star will be bright once more<br>The little pin-hole in heaven's floor--</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'The Angels pricked it to let it bring<br>Our feet to the throne of the new-born King!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And the first king heard and the second heard<br>And their hearts grew humble before the third.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And they laid them down beside bale and beast<br>and their sleeping eyes saw light in the East.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the Angels fanned them with starry wings<br>And the waft of visions of unseen things.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And the next gold day waned trembling and white<br>And the star was born of the waxing night.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And the three kings came where the Great King lay,<br>A little baby among the hay,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The ox and the ass were standing near<br>And Mary Mother beside her Dear.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then low in the litter the kings bowed down,<br>They gave Him gold for a kingly crown,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And frankincense for a great God's breath<br>and Myrrh to sweeten the day of death.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Maiden Mother she stood and smiled<br>And she took from the manger her little child.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">On the dark king's head she laid His hand<br>And anger died at that dear command.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She laid His hand on the gold king's head<br>And despair itself was comforted.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But when the pale king knelt in the stall<br>She heard on the straw his tears down fall.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And she stooped where he knelt beside her feet<br>And laid on his bosom her baby sweet.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And the king in the holy stable-place<br>Felt the little lips through the tears on his face.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">* * * * * * *</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Christ! lay Thy hand on the angry king<br>Who reigns in my breast to my undoing,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And lay thy hands on the king who lays<br>The spell of sadness on all my days,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And give the white king my soul, Thy soul,<br>Of these other kings the high control.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That soul and spirit and sense may meet<br>In adoration before Thy feet!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now Glory to God the Father Most High,<br>And the Star, the Spirit, He leads us by.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And to God's dear Son, the Babe who was born<br>And laid in the manger on Christmas morn!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Edith+Nesbit">Edith Nesbit</a><div class=q>
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The three kings journeyed to Palestine;

They came from the uttermost parts of earth
With long trains laden with gifts of worth.

The first king rode on a camel's back,
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