Monday, December 25, 2017

Betjeman's Christmas

The last verse of John Betjeman's poem Christmas.

Betjeman was UK Poet Laureate in 1972. In 1941 he was press attache in Dublin.

No love that in the family dwell,
No carolling in frosty air,
Nor all the steeple-shaking bells
Can with a single truth compare -
That God was man in Palestine
And lives today in bread and wine.


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