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A poem by Isabel Ecclestone Mackay

Christmas In Heaven

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Title:     Christmas In Heaven
Author: Isabel Ecclestone Mackay [More Titles by Mackay]

HOW hushed they were in Heaven that night,
How lightly all the angels went,
How dumb the singing spheres beneath
Their many-candled tent!

How silent all the drifting throng
Of earth-freed spirits, strangely torn
By dim and half-remembered pain
And joy but newly born!

The Glory in the Highest flamed
With awful, unremembered ray--
But quiet as the falling dew
Was He who went away.

So swift He went, His passing left
A low, bright door in Heaven ajar--
With God it was a covenant,
To man it seemed a star.


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Isabel Ecclestone Mackay's poem: Christmas In Heaven

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