Advent Beauty
From Gospel Translations
(Difference between revisions)
Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
- | + | {{info}} | |
+ | <blockquote>Tilting on her yearly track<br>Advent beauty circles back,<br>Flying faster with the years,<br>Hardly giving time for tears<br>First to dry upon the cheek—<br>Has it been more than a week<br>In the ground now winter cold?<br>Has there really been a spring<br>When the birds began to sing?<br>Has there been both summer, fall<br>Since the Baby in the stall<br>Called us with a Christmas bell<br>to sing, O Come, Immanuel?<br>Tilting on her yearly track<br>Advent beauty circles back,<br>Flying faster with the years—<br>Ah, but overtaking fears.<br>Let the Lord of advent lift<br>Every care (an early gift!);<br>See the Savior and the Son<br>Shine in advent candle one. </blockquote> |
Current revision as of 20:08, 3 October 2008
By John Piper
About The Incarnation
Part of the series Poems
Tilting on her yearly track
Advent beauty circles back,
Flying faster with the years,
Hardly giving time for tears
First to dry upon the cheek—
Has it been more than a week
In the ground now winter cold?
Has there really been a spring
When the birds began to sing?
Has there been both summer, fall
Since the Baby in the stall
Called us with a Christmas bell
to sing, O Come, Immanuel?
Tilting on her yearly track
Advent beauty circles back,
Flying faster with the years—
Ah, but overtaking fears.
Let the Lord of advent lift
Every care (an early gift!);
See the Savior and the Son
Shine in advent candle one.