{"id":88101,"date":"2017-01-08T09:59:43","date_gmt":"2017-01-08T17:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/?p=88101"},"modified":"2017-01-08T09:59:43","modified_gmt":"2017-01-08T17:59:43","slug":"happy-epiphany-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/happy-epiphany-sunday\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Epiphany Sunday!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"magi\"<\/a>
\nThe Wise Men<\/strong><\/p>\n

by G.K. Chesterton<\/em><\/p>\n

S<\/span>tep softly, under snow or rain,
\nTo find the place where men can pray;
\nThe way is all so very plain
\nThat we may lose the way.<\/p>\n

Oh we have learnt to peer and pore
\nOn tortured puzzles from our youth,
\nWe know all the labyrinthine lore,
\nWe are the three wise men of yore,
\nAnd we know all things but truth.<\/p>\n

We have gone round and round the hill
\nAnd lost the wood among the trees,
\nAnd learnt long names for every ill,
\nAnd serve the made gods, naming still
\nThe furies the Eumenides.<\/p>\n

The gods of violence took the veil
\nOf vision and philosophy,
\nThe Serpent that brought all men bale,
\nHe bites his own accursed tail,
\nAnd calls himself Eternity.<\/p>\n

Go humbly … it has hailed and snowed…
\nWith voices low and lanterns lit;
\nSo very simple is the road,
\nThat we may stray from it.<\/p>\n

The world grows terrible and white,
\nAnd blinding white the breaking day;
\nWe walk bewildered in the light,
\nFor something is too large for sight,
\nAnd something much too plain to say.<\/p>\n

The Child that was ere worlds begun \u2014
\n(… We need but walk a little way,
\nWe need but see a latch undone…)
\nThe Child that played with moon and sun
\nIs playing with a little hay.<\/p>\n

The house from which the heavens are fed,
\nThe old strange house that is our own,
\nWhere trick of words are never said,
\nAnd Mercy is as plain as bread,
\nAnd Honour is as hard as stone.<\/p>\n

Go humbly, humble are the skies,
\nAnd low and large and fierce the Star;
\nSo very near the Manger lies
\nThat we may travel far.<\/p>\n

Hark! Laughter like a lion wakes
\nTo roar to the resounding plain.
\nAnd the whole heaven shouts and shakes,
\nFor God Himself is born again,
\nAnd we are little children walking
\nThrough the snow and rain. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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