Advent to Candlemas (Vol. 2)

Harbinger

Emmanuel for all our days,
Our Winter light
Gives us new strength to praise
The longest night:
We hear the Baptist's Hosanna;
Clean up the street.
We feel the Jordan flow
Around our feet.
Emmanuel for every smile,
Our beckoning,
The Lamb to reconcile
Our reckoning:
We feel the infant leap
In Mary's womb
And faintly apprehend
The gaping tomb.
Emmanuel of all our love
Who was foretold,
King of frankincense and myrrh
But not of gold:
What sad, sweet harbinger
Of revelry
To end in death
On Calvary.