Show A Christmas Walk By Harriet Whitney Durbin x In silvery softness the anthem closed Like a slowly silenced bell Tho The sacred elfin calm of a peace divine dh ne Like bike a 0 benediction on fell I And out on the morning light that spread A glimmer of amber gray I walked with Margery home homo from churchOn church On an old old Christmas Day A bland blan mild for day day for the tho rugged mouth month Had chosen a t kindly mood Like a won wonderful erful mellow aftermath From the Autumns Autumn's plenitude e. e scarcely a tang tang- of wholesome cold Did the Winter breezes blow As S Margery walked from church with me me meOn On a Christmas long ago The earnest earne words T that had bad touched our 11 hearts arts arts- Tho rho warnings kindly and wise wise wise- Had left a shadow of tenderness In Margery's large s 's violet eyes eyes' t I Tho The merry hoydenish maid Id I'd known For a n. twelvemonths twelvemonth's flying space Had taken on that old Christmas Day A new and womanly grace As through the tremulous opal clouds That shifted and swayed apart A sun ray d the rosy face The Tho wish ish was born in my heart That down tho the trail of tho the unspent years Whatever cr their trend might bo be The soft eyed maiden m inu me then Might walk to tho the end with me awe I I I Absently watching tho the velvet flakes flukes I B By tho the white gule ale ule set wing a-wing I breathe tho the spirit of other years While Whilo the tho bells of Yuletide ring And Ana near me smiling with happy eyes oyes C At our childrens children's a romping pla play Is tho the f girl girl d who walked from church with me ma On that old sweet Christmas Day In In Tho The Peoples People's nome Hume Journal |