At the Manger Mary Sings

O shut your bright eyes that mine must endanger
With their watchfulness; protected by its shade
Escape from my care: what can you discover
From my tender look but how to be afraid?
Love can but confirm the more it would deny.
Close your bright eye.

Sleep. What have you learned from the womb that bore you
But an anxiety your Father cannot feel?
Sleep. What will the flesh that I gave do for you,
Or my mother love, but tempt you from his will?
Why was I chosen to teach his Son to weep?
Little One, sleep.

Dream. In human dreams earth ascends to Heaven
Where no one need pray nor ever feel alone.
In your first few hours of life here, O have you
Chosen already what death must be your own?
How soon will you start on the Sorrowful Way?
Dream while you may.

W.H. Auden



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Beautiful. This was shared by Father Arevalo during a recollection held at the Gesu yesterday. I just love how it portrays Mary as the mother of Jesus. Mary as a human, someone exactly like us. Indeed, how will one feel if you know that the only thing you can give the Son of God is your humanity?

It's nearing Advent and my heart awaits Jesus with hope and joy. :)