A Stable Lamp is Lighted

A stable lamp is lighted
Whose glow shll wake the sky
The stars shall bend their voices
And every stone shall cry
And every stone shall cry
And straw like gold will shine
A barn shall harbour heaven
A stall become a shrine

This child through David’s city

Will ride in triumph by

The palm shall strew its branches

And every stone shall cry

And every stone shall cry

Though heavy, dull and dumb

And lie within the roadway

To pave the Kingdom come

Yet He shall be forsaken

And yielded up to die

The sky shall groan and darken

And every stone shall cry

And every stone shall cry

For thorny hearts of men

God’s blood upon the spearhead

God’s love refused again

But now as at the ending

The low is lifted high

The stars will bend their voices

And every stone shall cry

And every stone shall cry

In praises of the child

By whose descent among us

The worlds are reconciled

- Richard Wilbur