{"id":12225,"date":"2017-12-25T05:00:06","date_gmt":"2017-12-25T05:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/?p=12225"},"modified":"2017-12-25T08:10:43","modified_gmt":"2017-12-25T08:10:43","slug":"and-straight-i-called-unto-mind-that-it-was-christmas-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/2017\/12\/and-straight-i-called-unto-mind-that-it-was-christmas-day\/","title":{"rendered":"And straight I called unto mind that it was Christmas day"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nThe Burning Babe<\/strong>
\nBy Saint Robert Southwell, SJ<\/p>\n

As I in hoary winter\u2019s night stood shivering in the snow,<\/div>\n
Surpris\u2019d I was with sudden heat which made my heart to glow;<\/div>\n
And lifting up a fearful eye to view what fire was near,<\/div>\n
A pretty Babe all burning bright did in the air appear;<\/div>\n
Who, scorched with excessive heat, such floods of tears did shed<\/div>\n
As though his floods should quench his flames which with his tears were fed.<\/div>\n
\u201cAlas!\u201d quoth he, \u201cbut newly born, in fiery heats I fry,<\/div>\n
Yet none approach to warm their hearts or feel my fire but I!<\/div>\n
My faultless breast the furnace is, the fuel wounding thorns,<\/div>\n
Love is the fire, and sighs the smoke, the ashes shame and scorns;<\/div>\n
The fuel Justice layeth on, and Mercy blows the coals,<\/div>\n
The metal in this furnace wrought are men\u2019s defiled souls,<\/div>\n
For which, as now on fire I am to work them to their good,<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0So will I melt into a bath to wash them in my blood.\u201d<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0With this he vanish\u2019d out of sight and swiftly shrunk away,<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0And straight I called unto mind that it was Christmas day.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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