Heart Songs

<h2><SPAN name="THE_KINGS_GIFT" id="THE_KINGS_GIFT"></SPAN>The King’s Gift</h2> <div class="poetry"> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0"><span class="letra">T</span>HE angels open the windows wide<br/></span> <span class="i2">In the world so far above us,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Lo, all about us, on every side,<br/></span> <span class="i2">Falls the newborn year unstained, untried,<br/></span> <span class="i2">O, angel hearts that love us!<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">Ye take our yesterdays dim and old,<br/></span> <span class="i2">Touched with sorrow and sinning,<br/></span> <span class="i0">And ye give to us with a grace untold<br/></span> <span class="i2">The year’s soft dew and the dawn of gold,<br/></span> <span class="i2">Ye give us the fresh beginning.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">Unstained the new year falls at our feet<br/></span> <span class="i2">From the world so far above us,<br/></span> <span class="i0">And what it will bring of joy complete,<br/></span> <span class="i2">Or take of treasures tender and sweet,<br/></span> <span class="i2">Ye know, O hearts that love us!<br/></span></div> </div></div> <p class="c"><ANTIMG src="images/deco.png" width-obs="25" alt="[Decorative image unavailable.]" /></p> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />