Poems (Sewell)/Christmas Day
CHRISTMAS - DAY.
Hail, Sacred Day! thy glorious lightMakes all Creation seem more bright!Dispels the Winter's heavy gloom,And raises Sorrow from the tomb!
Pale Resignation's humble cot,By Grandeur and the world forgot,Shall feel the splendour of thy ray,And bid her patient sons be gay.
Where Poverty her toil pursues,And still her daily task renews, Tho' Nature droops—thy beams shall shineAll pure, refreshing, and Divine!
Ev'n in the dark and doleful way,Where fierce Despair delights to stray,'Tis thine a sunshine to impart,To warm his desolated heart!
Oh bright Religion! thou canst bless,Canst draw him from his dark recess,And open treasures to his view,Which boasting Grandeur never knew!
Tho' earthly friends shou'd all forsake,A glorious path he still may take,Where beams of Mercy he may share,And find his dear Redeemer there!