Destroyers and Other Verses/A Wood-fire Bright and Candle-light

by Henry Head

 

She . . .

A wood-fire bright and candle-lightCast golden shadows on the gloom.You came, my dear, and with you fearFled from the corners of my room.

My sad heart swells with gladness: bellsRing peace to earth and mercy mildOn Christmas-Eve, and I believeWith rapture like a little child.

So year by year for you, my dear,I set my radiant Christmas-tree,Tall, green and straight to celebrateMy little love's nativity.