StoryTitle("caps", "The Child Jesus in the Garden") ?>
StoryOrigin("center", SmallCapsText("Author Unknown") ) ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(90, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Cold was the day, when in a garden bare,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", " Walked the Child Jesus, wrapt in holy thought;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "His brow seemed clouded with a weight of care;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", " Calmness and rest from worldly things he sought.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Soon was his presence missed within his home;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", " His mother gently marked his every way;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Forth then she came to seek where he did roam.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", " Full of sweet words his trouble to allay.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Through chilling snow she toiled to reach his side,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", " Forcing her way mid branches brown and sere,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Hastening that she his sorrows might divide,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", " Share all his woe, or calm his gloomy fear.", "") ?>
PagePoem(91, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Sweet was her face, as o'er his head she bent,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", " Longing to melt his look of saddest grief.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With lifted eyes, his ear to her he lent;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", " Her kindly solace brought his soul relief.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Then did he smile—a smile of love so deep,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", " Winter himself grew warm beneath its glow;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "From drooping branches scented blossoms peep;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", " Up springs the grass; the sealèd fountains flow.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Summer and spring did with each other vie,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", " Offering to Him the fragrance of their store;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Chanting sweet notes, the birds around him fly,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", " Wondering why earth had checkered so her floor.", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>