Poems (Coolidge)/The Music of Christmas

by Helen Elizabeth Coolidge

THE MUSIC OF CHRISTMAS

I hear the merry voices of children in their glee,
The jingling of the sleighbells is melody to me,
While from the belfry wafted, in rhythm true and sweet,
The chimes the Christmas story to listening world repeat,

There is another music—the heart can hear the strain,
To souls by love attunèd is echoed its refrain;
What wonder that the earth-sounds do faint and fainter grow,
When 'tis the voice of Jesus, the waiting ear may know.