<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=508136" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Nativity of Christ</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Behold the father is his daughter's son,<br>The bird that built the nest is hatched therein,<br>The old of years an hour hath not outrun,<br>Eternal life to live doth now begin,<br>The Word is dumb, the mirth of heaven doth weep,<br>Might feeble is, and force doth faintly creep.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">O dying souls, behold your living spring;<br>O dazzled eyes, behold your sun of grace;<br>Dull ears, attend what word this Word doth bring;<br>Up, heavy hearts, with joy your joy embrace.<br>From death, from dark, from deafness, from despairs<br>This life, this light, this Word, this joy repairs.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Gift better than himself God doth not know;<br>Gift better than his God no man can see.<br>This gift doth here the giver given bestow;<br>Gift to this gift let each receiver be.<br>God is my gift, himself he freely gave me;<br>God's gift am I, and none but God shall have me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Man altered was by sin from man to beast;<br>Beast's food is hay, hay is all mortal flesh.<br>Now God is flesh and lies in manger pressed<br>As hay, the brutest sinner to refresh.<br>O happy field wherein that fodder grew,<br>Whose taste doth us from beasts to men renew.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Robert+Southwell">Robert Southwell</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=508136" data-title="The Nativity of Christ de Robert Southwell" data-description="Behold the father is his daughter's son, The bird that built the nest is hatched therein, The old of years an hour hath not outrun, Eternal life to live doth now begin, The Word is dumb, the mirth of heaven doth weep, Might feeble is, and force do..."></div> </div> </div>

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