Nativity

An Original Poem

The Newborn Christ by Georges de La Tour, 1640

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Native now and timely

Is the bright and morning star -

In the heart of all creation 

Burns a candle from afar.


A votive in the gloaming 

Gutters quickly and is gone -

But the promised one of Bethel

Burns beneath: th' eternal dawn.

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Sincerely,

E.K.