Sunday Poem ~ One Small Child

Dec 9th, 2007

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One little Child . . no more, no less –

And could His mother Mary guess

Salvation for the human race

Depended on that night, that place?

And did she know this Child would cause

All heaven to rock with glad applause?

Would cause the angels to rehearse

Their midnight song of sacred verse?

Would cause a star of strange design

To leave its orbit, and to shine

A brilliant path, from east to west?

Would cause wise men to choose the best

Of hoarded treasure, and to search

The nations from a camel perch?

Would make a king (in craven fear)

Destroy small man-children near?

To this small Child the nation thrilled,

For He was prophecy fulfilled.

But could His mother even guess

While rocking Him with tenderness,

The whole import of His advent . . .

This one small Child, from heaven sent.

~ Esther S. Buckwalter

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