George MacDonald Poems

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171.
Christmas, 1873

Christmas-Days are still in store:-
Will they change-steal faded hither?
Or come fresh as heretofore,
Summering all our winter weather?
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172.
Cottage-Songs

I.-BY THE CRADLE.

Close her eyes: she must not peep!
Let her little puds go slack;
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173.
A Fear

O Mother Earth, I have a fear
Which I would tell to thee-
Softly and gently in thine ear
When the moon and we are three.
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174.
A Mammon-Marriage

The croak of a raven hoar!
A dog's howl, kennel-tied!
Loud shuts the carriage-door:
The two are away on their ghastly ride
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175.
A Song For Christmas

I.

Hark, in the steeple the dull bell swinging
Over the furrows ill ploughed by Death!
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176.
A Prayer For The Past: Now Far From My Old Northern Land,

Now far from my old northern land,
I live where gentle winters pass;
Where green seas lave a wealthy strand,
And unsown is the grass
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177.
A Prayer In Sickness

Thou foldest me in sickness;
Thou callest through the cloud;
I batter with the thickness
Of the swathing, blinding shroud:
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178.
A Vision Of St. Eligius

I.

I see thy house, but I am blown about,
A wind-mocked kite, between the earth and sky,
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179.
After The Fashion Of An Old Emblem

I have long enough been working down in my cellar,
Working spade and pick, boring-chisel and drill;
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180.
After Thomas Kempis

I.

Who follows Jesus shall not walk
In darksome road with danger rife;
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