Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Our Saviour Christ was bornThat we might have the rose without the thorn;All through His desert lifeHe felt the thorns of human sin and strife.His blessed feet were bareTo every hurting brier; He did not spareOne bleeding footstep on the wayHe came to trace for us, until the dayThe cruel crown was pressed upon the Brow,That smiles upon us from His glory now.
And so He won for usSweet, thornless, everlasting flowers thus!He bids our desert wayRejoice and blossom as the rose to-day.There is no hidden thornIn His good gifts of grace; He would adornThe lives that now are His alone,With brightness and with beauty all His own.Then praise the Lord who came on Christmas DayTo give the rose and take the thorn away.
... Frances Ridley Havergal (1836-1879), The Poetical Works of Frances Ridley Havergal, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1888, p. 165-166
(see the book; see also Isa. 35:1-2; Matt. 27:28-29; Mark 15:17-18; John 19:1-5; Heb. 6:7-8; more at Christ, Christmas, Everlasting, Glory, Savior, Sin, Strife)
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