Daily Advent poem 4

Thursday


Earth brakes up, time drops away,

In flows heaven with its new day

Of endless life, when He who trod,

Very Man and very God,

This earth in weakness, shame and pain,

Dying the death whose signs remain

Up yonder on the accursed tree,-

Shall come again, no more to be

Of captivity the thrall,

But the one God, All in All,

King of kings and Lord of lords:

As His servant John received the words,

"I died, and live for evermore."




Browning