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BETHLEHEM GATE.
A Picture by Dante Gabriel Rossetti.[1]
Of old through gates that closed on them
Two exiles went with eyes downcast;
The Present now retrieves the Past,
God’s Eden is in Bethlehem.
An Eden that no walls enclose
By Mary’s arms encompassèd,
A living shrine, a ’house of bread,’
A very haven of repose.
