Poem December 21, 1998 ISSUE

The Christmas story

Duane Valentry

Do you wonder what Jesus thought of his birth?Did his mother tell him the glorious taleOf the star and the shepherds, the angel choirAnd Magi carrying gifts of great worthFor the babe of a young girl's virgin birth?

Did she remember to tell him, too,Of "no room in the inn—at least not for you"?Of the stable, instead, where he woke that morn,Of the manger there where he was born?

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