Let the star this Christmas
Turn a lightning rod
For the money-changers who,
Bereft of grace,
Have made of the world
A mere market-place—
Men whose corroded hearts
Have no room for the sheep
Who followed you, leaving
Home and hearth, in hope to find
A new, everlasting birth.
They may celebrate the manger,
But their abode is not there;
While those who live by the manger
Are destitute everywhere.
Insufferable cruelties have riven
A bloodied earth. Give us this
Day a new earth before you
Give us a heaven.
And, O Lord, do not reprimand
That we complain;
We have waited long in steadfast pain.
Truth to tell, it is memory of your
Own revolt that gives us courage to rebel.
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