CHRIST used to be like you and me, When just a lad in Galilee, -- So when we pray, on Christmas Day, He favors first the prayers we say: Then waste no tear, but pray with cheer, This gladdest day of all the year: O Brother mine of birth Divine, Upon this natal day of Thine Bear with our stress of happiness Nor count our reverence the less Because with glee and jubilee Our hearts go singing up to Thee. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...CHAMBER MUSIC: 9 by JAMES JOYCE THE HERETIC: 2. IRONY by LOUIS UNTERMEYER WINTER RAIN by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI ON SOME BUTTERCUPS by FRANK DEMPSTER SHERMAN O MAGNET-SOUTH by WALT WHITMAN AT BAY RIDGE, LONG ISLAND by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH THE DEEPS by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN |