COME back to-day to Bethlehem, The year is on the wane, A truce to strife that wearies life, A truce to grief and pain, Oh, heart return to Bethlehem And hear its song again! If siren voices luring thee Have turned thy thoughts aside, If thou hast quaffed the bitter draught Of envy or of pride, If thou in agony of shame Hast thy dear Lord denied, Come back to-day to Bethlehem, All in the quickening dawn, With wistful eyes regard the skies Ere yet the gloom is gone. Oh, list the song of Bethlehem Forever pealing on! Oh, burdened with the weight of sin And worn with many a care, Here drop thy load, the sunrise road Is open at thy prayer. Return, return to Bethlehem, The angels wait thee there! Come back, come back to Bethlehem! Behold the Virgin's Child By prophets told in ages old, The fair, the undefiled! Lo, peace is born in Bethlehem To soothe earth's tumults wild. Come back to-day to Bethlehem! Though thou hast wandered far, No rest shall fill thy yearning breast Until thou see the Star. Oh, heart return to Bethlehem Where yet the angels are! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TROY PARK: 1. THE WARMTH OF SPRING by EDITH SITWELL MARRIAGE by MARY ELIZABETH COLERIDGE IN THE NEOLITHIC AGE by RUDYARD KIPLING PROMETHEUS BOUND: THE OVERTHROW OF ZEUS by AESCHYLUS ALPINE SPIRIT'S SONG by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES GIVE ME A CHANCE by THOMAS T. BLEWETT |