Monday, December 24

Yet: O Glorious Yet

This day,
In sadness borne,
We must confess:
The Spirit of the Age
Has crushed
The infant in the cradle.

And yet:
O glorious yet,
One day, in gladness shown,
We must profess:
The infant from the manger
Has crushed
The Spirit of the Age.

Tristan Gylberd (1954-)
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3 comments:

  1. gileskirkDecember 24, 2007

    This 2005 poem is republished here at the request of TulipGirl. Merry Christmas.

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  2. Lawrence UnderwoodDecember 24, 2007

    Love it. Is it copyrighted?

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  3. gileskirkDecember 25, 2007

    Lawrence: Yes. I hope to see a Tristan Gylberd anthology published someday. An earlier version of this poem was published in the first edition of Grand Illusions, inspired by a song written by Scott Roley and Mike Card. The updated version is a part of a larger epic written in 2005 for Christmastide mystery story.

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