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In the Morning

Chapter 57: “HIS STAR.”
By Willis Boyd Allen
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A sequence of lyric poems that meditates on dawn, nature, and spiritual feeling, often deploying mountain, forest, and seaside imagery to probe grief, consolation, and renewal. Poems move among quiet pastorals, occasional and domestic verse, devotional hymns, translations, and lighter nonsense pieces, following seasonal rhythms and holiday observances. The voice shifts between elegiac introspection and bright affirmation, favoring sensory detail—birdsong, running water, sunlight—and a consolatory outlook that finds moral and emotional sustenance in simple scenes and ritual moments.

“HIS STAR.”

Christmas Eve—and the mellow light
Of the Star in the East was aglow
O’er the Magi, hastening through the night,
In the desert, long ago.
Christmas Eve—and the gentle light
Of the Star in the East was aglow
O’er the lambs, asleep with their shepherds by night,
On the hillside, long ago.
Christmas Eve—and the golden light
Of the Star in the East was aglow
O’er a Baby’s brow, in the holy night,
In a manger, long ago.
Christmas Eve—and the blessèd light
Of the Star in the East is aglow,
As it shone of old, through the sweet, still night,
O’er Bethlehem, long ago.