Destroyers and Other Verses/A Wood-fire Bright and Candle-light

by Henry Head

 

She . . .

A wood-fire bright and candle-light
Cast golden shadows on the gloom.
You came, my dear, and with you fear
Fled from the corners of my room.

My sad heart swells with gladness: bells
Ring peace to earth and mercy mild
On Christmas-Eve, and I believe
With rapture like a little child.

So year by year for you, my dear,
I set my radiant Christmas-tree,
Tall, green and straight to celebrate
My little love's nativity.