Today is Monday, December 17th, 2007; Karen's Korner #1211
Cory Abels' writing of list week prompted Lois Lesher to forward me a poem she had written in 1962. Thanks, Lois, for sharing; she said she had penned it for her children:
The Holy Story
God looked down from Heaven above,
and gave us Baby Jesus to love,
In the manger forever he will lie.
Small children sing his lullaby.
His birth we will celebrate, with candle and bough.
He was born in a stable, with donkey and cow.
A star shone bright, in the heaven's above,
And up in the rafters cooed a dove.
Shepherds and Wise Men came to see,
And fell down on bended knee.
Gifts they brought from far and near,
And wondered at the miracle of this baby dear.
Joseph and Mary, the parents were,
And from Bethlehem they fled in fear.
Wicked Herod had decreed,
That not a boy from his sword would be freed.
But Joseph was warned in a dream,
And they left the country over hiss and stream.
Fled with their son to a land far away,
To a place where he could safely play.
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