A Christmas Faggot (Classic Reprint)

PREFACE. lVloST of the following poems have appeared in the'S. Barnabas' Parish IVlagazine.' For my godchildren and my people I have made theln up into a little bundle of sticks-a Christmas faggot to feed the fires in the winter palace of Ollr King. It is the Incarnation that justifies all joy, and song is the expression of joy. The Gospel Songs all celebrate the Great Nativity. Birth anu marriage arc the occasIons most sacrcd to mirth and music among Incn ; anu Christmas is at oncc thc Birthday and the :Iarriagc Fcsti'al of Humanity. Glad and thankful shall I bc if any song of Inine should hclp to fan thc flame of rejoicing lo'c in any Christian hcart at this holy and happy season.

Table of Contents

CONTENTS; -; PAGE; YULE TIDE I; THE :lADONN A DI SAi ~ISTO 6; BETHLEHE:I (;:TE I I; SAINT JOSEPH 16; A CRADLE SON(] IS; A CRADLED CHILD ,"" -,J; AN E~lPTY CRADLE; NEW YEAR'S EVE; THE VICTIM 30; THE DA YSMAN 33; THE PHYSICIAK THE POET; TIIREE SISTEl{S; A CIlRIST:'>IAS I'L"ZZU; FOUR Jo: I' I I'IIANI ES; THE CHILDREN'S EUCHARIST; TH E COSJ'EL SO='lGS :; rOTES; I Bcnedictus; II 11 agn ificat; III N"unc Dimittis; "AGl!; -to; 43; 59; 63; 66; 69

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