HAVE you seen God's Christmas tree in the sky, With its trillions of tapers blazing high, With its star-strung branches that reach so far — Clear up through the spaces where angels are? Hush — listen! If you look close with me I'll show you this magical Christmas tree — This tree of God, with its branches wide, The flame for the angels at Christmastide. Oh, its great, wide branches are powdered white With silver dust from the stars at night — Branches laden with wealth untold — Wreaths and ribbons and ropes of gold! Chain on chain of luminous things — Suns and satellites — moons and rings — Hung high up where the angels are — Can you trace the branches from star to star? And look — hung low for our mortal sight, A luminous globe of silver white! And yonder — sheer in the frosty air — A dipper of diamonds dazzling fair! Oh, if you and I could look and see, With souls bared clear to its mystery — This tree, with its millions of jewelled strands, And its tapers lighted by cherub hands — Who knows what marvels might beam and blaze To thrill our souls with a rapt amaze! Who knows but the branches might part to view With the faces of angels shining through? Oh, the marvellous gifts of this tree divine — Gifts that are yours — gifts that are mine — Dropped by the angels adown the sky — From the great wide branches so high — so high! There's a gift of peace and a gift of love, And a gift of faith from the spheres above; There's a gift of hope for those who mourn — Whose homes are blighted, whose hearths are lorn. For high up there in God's love and light, Who knows but the ones we miss to-night Are hanging the tapers to guide our eyes To this tree of God in Paradise? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TIME TO BE WISE by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR BETH GELERT; OR, THE GRAVE OF THE GREYHOUND by WILLIAM ROBERT SPENCER SALOME by GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE ON THE GREAT ENCOURAGEMENT GIVEN BY ENGLISH NOBILITY & GENTRY by WILLIAM BLAKE THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: A LOVE LETTER by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON |