Thursday, December 29, 2016

THESE HALLS OF NIGHT*



The storm weaves lace on trees and stones,
All that mankind knew-- is gone.
Icicles spun and honed in shrouds;
Fall to earth with silver sounds.

Evergreens lift great fans of quiet;
Mountains guard these halls of night.
Cold sinks and drifts on every thing--
The moon disdains: a frozen ring.

We witness all the shifting ice--
Treachery, in ever glittering white,
But supplications ever stretch, unbound--
And Heaven's promises resound.

The night is long; the world deceived,
All those lies we once believed!
But yet we pause, to consider, still--
The sacred Word, fulfilled.



--Abby Elizabeth Charland