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His Mother's Joy

The Reminder is making its archives back to 2003 available on our website. Please note that, due to technical limitations, archive articles are presented without the usual formatting.

The Reminder is making its archives back to 2003 available on our website. Please note that, due to technical limitations, archive articles are presented without the usual formatting.

(John White Chadwick) Little, I ween, did Mary guess, As on her arm her baby lay, What tides of joy would swell and beat, Through ages long, on Christmas day. And what if she had known it all, The awful splendor of his fame? The inmost heart of all her joy Would still, methinks, have been the same: The joy that every mother knows Who feels her babe against her breast: The voyage long is overpast, And now is calm and peace and rest. "Art thou the Christ?" The wonder came As easy as her infant's breath: But answer none. Enough for her, That love had triumphed over death.

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