Shepherds hear the Angels from afar <br />Heaven send down you gentle evening showers <br />His coming brings a bright and morning star <br />Offspring of MARY flower of the perfect flower! <br />The bright Sun which no cloud devours <br />Has travelled from the East into the West <br />God's Son has come to Earth from Heaven's Towers <br />PRO NOBIS PUER SANCTUS NATUS EST! <br /> <br />Archangels - Angels - Thrones and Dominations <br />Potentates and Rulers - Martyrs - Seers <br />And all of Heaven's mystic operations <br />Stars - Planets - Asteroids and Spheres <br />Fire - Earth and Air and Water disappears <br />To give to Him most loving and most blest <br />Who comes to cast out sin and calm our fears <br />PRO NOBIS PUER SANCTUS NATUS EST! <br /> <br />Sinners reform and all your penance do <br />And thank your Maker for His boundless Grace <br />His Holy Place you cannot enter into <br />You cannot stand within His Holy Place <br />You cannot look upon His Holy Face <br />He'll send His Son to save you from the test <br />IMMANUEL means God has come to you! <br />PRO NOBIS PUER SANCTUS NATUS EST! <br /> <br />The last line is translated as: <br />For us the Holy Child is born! <br /> <br />(John Knight - Colchester - December 2009)<br /><br />John Knight<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/1130-christmas-blessings/
