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Sarah's Christening Day

Our Lord, today is Sarah's christening day.

I wouldn't build the child a house of straw,

Teach her to wait and welcome the holy face

With candles of prayer, or pray, if the wager were all.

But I have never seen or loved the holy face.

I don't believe the half of what I pray.

This world is straw: straw mother, father, friend,

Per omnia saecula saeculorum, amen. But Lord! it shines, it shines, like light, today.