Christmas / G.A. Studdert Kennedy

Christmas

     Come sail with me,
     O'er the golden sea,
To the land where the rainbow ends.
     Where the rainbow ends,
     And the great earth bends,
To the weight of the starry sky.
     Where tempests die
     With a last fierce cry,
And never a wind is wild
     There's a Mother mild,
     With a little child
Like a star set on her knee.
     Then bow you down,
     Give Him the crown,
'Tis the Lord of the world you see.

~~
G.A. Studdert Kennedy ("Woodbine Willy") (1883-1929)
from Rough Rhymes of a Padre, 1918

[Poem is in the public domain in Canada, the United States, and the European Union]

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