Beautiful stories wed with lovely days <br />Like words and music:-what shall be the tale <br />Of love and nobleness that might avail <br />To express in action what this sweetness says- <br /> <br />The sweetness of a day of airs and rays <br />That are strange glories on the winter pale? <br />Alas, O beauty, all my fancies fail! <br />I cannot tell a story in thy praise! <br /> <br />Thou hast, thou hast one-set, and sure to chime <br />With thee, as with the days of 'winter wild;' <br />For Joy like Sorrow loves his blessed feet <br />Who shone from Heaven on Earth this Christmas-time <br />A Brother and a Saviour, Mary's child!- <br />And so, fair day, thou <br />hast <br />thy story sweet.<br /><br />George MacDonald<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/christmas-day-1850/
