{"id":3734,"date":"2008-12-25T20:47:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-25T20:47:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2017-03-23T04:25:27","modified_gmt":"2017-03-23T04:25:27","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/?p=3734","title":{"rendered":"Merry Christmas!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Merry Christmas!<\/b>
\nHere is a Christmas poem from G.K. Chesterton<\/a>.<\/p>\n

There fared a mother driven forth
\nOut of an inn to roam;
\nIn the place where she was homeless
\nAll men are at home.
\nThe crazy stable close at hand,
\nWith shaking timber and shifting sand,
\nGrew a stronger thing to abide and stand
\nThan the square stones of Rome.<\/p>\n

For men are homesick in their homes,
\nAnd strangers under the sun,
\nAnd they lay their heads in a foreign land
\nWhenever the day is done.<\/p>\n

Here we have battle and blazing eyes,
\nAnd chance and honour and high surprise,
\nBut our homes are under miraculous skies
\nWhere the yule tale was begun.<\/p>\n

A child in a foul stable,
\nWhere the beasts feed and foam;
\nOnly where He was homeless
\nAre you and I at home;
\nWe have hands that fashion and heads that know,
\nBut our hearts we lost\u2014how long ago!
\nIn a place no chart nor ship can show
\nUnder the sky\u2019s dome.<\/p>\n

This world is wild as an old wife\u2019s tale,
\nAnd strange the plain things are,
\nThe earth is enough and the air is enough
\nFor our wonder and our war;
\nBut our rest is as far as the fire-drake swings
\nAnd our peace is put in impossible things
\nWhere clashed and thundered unthinkable wings
\nRound an incredible star.<\/p>\n

To an open house in the evening
\nHome shall all men come,
\nTo an older place than Eden
\nAnd a taller town than Rome.
\nTo the end of the way of the wandering star,
\nTo the things that cannot be and that are,
\nTo the place where God was homeless
\nAnd all men are at home.<\/p>\n

(from the hog’s head<\/a>)<\/p>\n

I hope that you all had a fun and blessed day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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