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J Ji:, ,' • z. *C'^\4_ /'^ 'a^/^-^niU\^ Cftnotmas (B\>t at Uy HIiss Caniiiin New York liil^lls Kirnball M I. M I CjbriBtmas (tt>t at By Bliss Carman New York Ingalls Kimball M C M I Clu-l Copyrifht by Blill C' -lun M c M I C^n'j8ttna0 eu at ^. Mbin'g, To the assembled folk At Great S. Kavin's spoke Young Brother Amiel on Christmas eve ; I give you joy, my friends, That as the round year ends, We meet once more for gladness by God's leave. On other festal days For penitence or praise Or prayer we meet, or fulness of thanksgiving ; To-night we calendar The rising of that star Which lit the old world with new joy of living. Ah, we disparage still The Tidings of Good Will, Discrediting Love's gospel now as then ! And with the verbal creed That God is love indeed. Who dares make Love his god before all men ? Shall we not therefore, friends, Resolve to make amends To that glad inspiration of the heart ; To grudge not, to cast out Selfishness, malice, doubt. Anger and fear; and for the better part. To love so much, so well. The spirit cannot trfl The range and sweep of her own boundary ' There is no period Between the soul and God : Love is the tide, God the eternal sea. Of old, men walked by fear; And if their God seemed near, It was the Avenger unto whom they bowed,— A wraith of their own woes. Vain, cruel, and morose. With anger and vindictiveness endowed. Of old, men walked by hate ; The ruthless were the great; Their crumbling kingdoms stayed by might alone. Men saw vast empires die. Nor guessed the reason why,— The simple law of life as yet unknown As love. Then came our Lord, Proclaiming the accord Of soul and nature in love's rule and sway, The lantern that he set To light us, shining yet Along the Perfect Path wherein we stray. To-day we walk by love ; To strive is not enough, Save against greed and ignorance and might. We apprehend peace comes Not with the roll of drums, But m the still processions of the night. And we perceive, not awe But love is the great law That binds the world together safe and whole. 1 he splendid planets run Their courses in the sun ; Love is the gravitation of the soul. In the profound unknoi -., Illumined, fair, and lone. Each star is set to shimmer in its place. In the profound divine Each soul is set to shine. And its unique appointed orbit trace. [3] There is no near nor far, Where glorious Algebar Swings round his mighty circuit through the night, Yet where without a sound The winged seed comes to ground. And the red leaf seems hardl; to alight. One force, one lore, one need For satellite and seed. In the serene benignity for all. Letting her time-glass run With star-dust, sun by sun. In Nature's thought there is no great nor small. There is no far nor near Within the spirit's sphere. The summer sunset's scarlet-yellow wings Are tinged with the same dye That paints the tulip's ply. And what is colour but the soul of things ? (The earth was without form ; God moulded it with storm. Ice, flood, and tempest ; then when all was through, Lest it should come to ill For lack of lovmg still. He gave it colour, living tint and hue.) [4] My joy of yesterday Is just as far away As the first rapture of my man's estate. A lifetime or an hour Has all there is of power. In Nature's love there is no small nor great. Of old, men said, " Sin not; By every line and jot Ye shall abide; man's heart is false and vile " Christ said, " By love alone In man's heart is God known ; Obey the word no falsehood can defile." The wise physician ther" Of our distress had care, And laid his finger on the pulse of time. And there to eyes unsealed Earth's secret lay revealed. The truth that knows not any age nor clime. The heart of the ancient wood Was a grim solitude, The sanction of a worship no less grim; Man's ignorance and fear Peopled the natural year With forces evil and malign to him. [5] He saw the wild rough way Of cosmic powers at play ; He did not see the love that lay below. Jehovah, Mars, and Thor, These were the gods of war He made in his own likeness long ago. Then came the Word, and said, "See how the world is made,— With how much loving kindness, ceaseless care. Not Wrath, but Love, call then ^uTi. ^°^^ of beasts and men. Whose nand sustains the sparrows in the air." And since that day we prove Only how great is love, Nor to this hour its greatness half believe. For to what other power Will life give equal dower. Or chaos grant one moment of reprieve ! Look down the ages' line, Where slowly the divine Evinces energy, puts forth control; See mighty love alone Transmuting stock and stone, Infusmg being, helping sense and soul. [6] And what is energy, In-working, which bids be \^U^ P*8,""' ""'^ '''« ''fc of earth ? What IS the genesis Ofeveryjoy and bliss, tach action dared, each beauty brought to birth ? ,^hat hangs the sun on high ? ^x,L . ^?' **^"* ''^« growing rye ? What bjds ^he loons cry on tlie Northern lake' ,^L ^?" '" '**'"P »nd swale. When April winds prevail. And all the dwellers of tKe ground awake? What lurks in the dry seed Tiut waiting to be freed, ^"'"P *"'* P«'t"t f°' a hundred years? 1 111 of earth, rain and sun, A miracle is done. Some magic calls the sleeper and he hears,— Arouses, puts forth blade And leaf and bud, arrayed Some morning in that garb of rosy snow, 1 he same fair matchless flower As shed its petal-shower Through old Iberian gardens long ago. [7] What is it that endures, Survives, persists, immures Life s very self; preserving type and plan ?— Vet learns the scope of change. As the long cycles range,— Looks through tlie eyes of bKiebird, wolf, and man ? What lurks in the deep gaze Ofthe old wolf? Amaze, Hope, recognition, gladness, anger, fear. But deeper than all these Love muses, yearns and sees. And IS the self that does not change nor veer. Not love of self alone, Struggle for lair and bone. But self-denying love of mate and young Love that is kind and wise. Knows trust and sacrifice. And speaks the o' dark universal tongue. In Nature you behold But strivings manifold. Battle and conflict, tribe warring agninst tribe? Look deeper, and see all That death cannot appal, I* allure intimidate, nor fortune bribe. [8] Our brothers of the air B-K m'^V""' T** J""' ">"« dare, Yet"th!nT"^{.''*^'!'!lT''''8'''""'»"dchoice; Yet think, when glad hosts throne 1 he summer woods with sontr Love gave them beauty and love lends them voice. Love surely ui some form W«, the dark binnacle that held them true, 1 nose tiny mariners No unknown voyage deters, When the old migrant longing stirs anew. And who has understood Our brothers of the wood. Save he who put off guile and every guise Of violence,— made truce With panther, bear and moose. As beings hke ourselves whom love makes wise? For they too do love's will. Our lesser clansmen still ; I he House of Many Mansions holds us all • Courageous, glad and hale. / hey go forth on the trail, Hearing the message, hearkening to the call. [9] Oh, not fortuitoui ch«nce %u^.r"T* ••'■'" "«^'' «*" kind; But «Iw»ys loving will Was present to fulfil 1 he pnm.l purpose groping up to mind. Adversity but bade New puissance spring to aid r. !Pf,"'y ^'°'^ nought,— Gave .k.ll and mastery fot'he shapes of clay; For always while new need oidsKs^s:re?o7;;e?x«oV"'^i . Fortune might m^ouHev^r ""' ''''"• But impulse must resolve, tqu.pped at length to know, r^oice. and thrive. And evermore must Love AnH r""'"' f<»-"«. approve, And look upon the work*and find it good • Else would all effort fail,— ^ " ' 1 he very stars avail Lessthanaswarmoffirefliesinawood. Take love out of the world One day, and we are hurled Back into night to perish in the void. Love IS the very girth And cincture of this earth, No stitch to be unloosed, no link destroyed. However wild and long The battle of the strong, Stronger and longer are the Urs of peace. When gladness has its way Under the fair blue day. And life aspires, takes thought, bids good increase. So dawns the awaited hour When the great cosmic power Of love was first declared by (Christ; so too I o-day we keep in mind His name who taught mankind 1 hat open secret old, yet ever new,— Commemorate his birth Who loved the kindly earth, ln"l ^'i"'""''* "'"pa^ion'te, humane. And tolerant and wise And glad,_the very guise And height of manhood not to lose again. [>'] Shall we not then forego Lavish perfunctory show, The burdensome display, the empty gift, That we may have to give To every soul alive Of love's illumination, cheer, and lift ? See rich and poor be fed ! Break up thy soul for bread. Be loaves and fishes to the hungry heart. That a great multitude. Receiving of thy good. May bless the God within thee and depart I You workmen, love your work Or leave it. Let no irk Unsteady the labourious hand, that still Must give the spirit play To follow her own way To beauty, through devotion, care, and skill. How otherwise find vent For soul's imperious bent, Than thro' these hands for wonder-working made. When Love the sure and bold Guides to the unforetold ? Blessed the craftsman who is unafraid ! [12] Give Beauty her sweet will. Make love your mistress still, You lovers, nor delay 1 God's time be yours. Make low-born jealousy And doubt ashamed to be, And cast old envious gossip out of doors. Believe the truth of love. Enact t!ie beauty of love. Praise and adore the goodliness of love. For we are wise by love. And strong and fair through love. No less than sainted and inspired with love. Remember the new word The Syrian twilight heard. That marvellous discourse which John records, The one last great command The Master left his band, " Love one another ! " And our time affords What greater scope than just To execute that trust ? Love greatly ; love ; love is life's best employ. Neighbour, sweetheart, or friend. Love wholly, to love's end ; So is the round world richer for your joy. [13] Love only, one or all ! Measure no great and small ! Love is a seed, lire-bearing, undecayed ; And that immortal germ Past bounds of zone and term Will grow and cover the whole world with shade. Sow love, it cannot fail ; Adversity's sharp hail May cut all else to ground ; ffW love survives. The black frost of despair And slander's bitter air, — Love will outlast them by a thousand lives. Be body, mind and soul. Subject to love's control. Each loving to the limit of love's power; And all as one, not three. So is man's trinity Enhanced and freed and gladdened hour by hour. Beauty from youth to age, The body's heritage. Love will not forfeit by neglect nor shame ; And knowledge, dearly bought, Love will account as nought. Unless it serve soul's need and body's claim. [14] Let soul desire, mind ask, And body crave ; our task Be to fulfil each want in love's own way. So shall the good and true Partake of beauty too. And life be helped and greatened day by day. Spend love, and save it not; In act, in wish, in thought. Spend love jon this lifetime without stint. Let not the heart grow dry. As the good hours go by ; Love now, see earth take on the glory tint. Open the door to-night Within your heart, and light The lantern of love there to shine afar. On a tumultuous sea Some straining craft, maybe. With bearings lost, shall sight love's silver star. [15] OF this book there have been printed in all two hundred and twenty two copies, of which one hundred and siity two are for tale. Of choM to be sold there are one hundred and fifty on hand made paper, ten on Japan paper ind two on vellum.