Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, RECURRING YULETIDE, by JOSEPH TWYMAN


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RECURRING YULETIDE, by                    
First Line: How good our every festival appears
Last Line: And to receive — in knowing how to give.
Subject(s): Caregivers; Children; Festivals; Maturity; Childhood; Fairs; Pageants


How good our every festival appears —
How full of meaning as we learn to know!
And as the mystery of childhood clears,
See the Christ stand in purifying glow;
His greater power and strength directing still
The footsteps and the hand, the sight, the will;
Each glad approach, regardful of the years,
Foretells the presence better understood,
And as the time of understanding nears,
Maturer life appreciates the good
In that great heart that taught us how to live
And to receive — in knowing how to give.





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