KERSTWENS

All good wishes
for the Christmas Season
and the New Year 2007
 

With the very best wishes to all my friends - Cees Sleven

 

The time draws near the birth of Christ:
The moon is hid; the night is still;
The Christmas bells from hill to hill
Answer each other in the mist.

Four voices of four hamlets round,
From far and near, on mead and moor,
Swell out and fail, as if a door
Were shut between me and the sound:

Each voice four changes on the wind,
That now dilate, and now decrease,
Peace and Goodwill, Goodwill and Peace,
Peace and Goodwill to all mankind.
 

Image:   Wood engraving by George Mackley,
Poem:   Alfred Tennyson


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