HOW hushed they were in Heaven that night, <br />How lightly all the angels went, <br />How dumb the singing spheres beneath <br />Their many-candled tent! <br /> <br />How silent all the drifting throng <br />Of earth-freed spirits, strangely torn <br />By dim and half-remembered pain <br />And joy but newly born! <br /> <br />The Glory in the Highest flamed <br />With awful, unremembered ray-- <br />But quiet as the falling dew <br />Was He who went away. <br /> <br />So swift He went, His passing left <br />A low, bright door in Heaven ajar-- <br />With God it was a covenant, <br />To man it seemed a star.<br /><br />Isabel Ecclestone Mackay<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/christmas-in-heaven/
