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                 Poems by Mary Baker Eddy                  29

  	            CHRISTMAS MORN 

 1	    BLEST Christmas morn, though
  	          murky clouds
 3	        Pursue thy way,
  	    Thy light was born where storm
  	          enshrouds
 6	        Nor dawn nor day! 

  	    Dear Christ, forever here and near,
  	        No cradle song,
 9	    No natal hour and mother's tear,
  	        To thee belong. 

  	    Thou God-idea, Life-encrowned,
12	        The Bethlehem babe — 
  	    Beloved, replete, by flesh embound — 
  	        Was but thy shade! 

15	    Thou gentle beam of living Love,
  	        And deathless Life! 
  	    Truth infinite, — so far above
18	        All mortal strife,

  	    Or cruel creed, or earth-born taint:
  	        Fill us today
21	    With all thou art — be thou our saint,
  	        Our stay, alway. 

  	      December, 1898.