Fragment For Christmas

• 6 years ago

By DUNSTAN THOMPSON

(Editor’s Note: Wanderer contributor Philip Trower submitted the poem below by Dunstan Thompson. Thompson [1918-1975] was an American poet. Trower is Thompson’s executor; all rights reserved.)

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Dear Lord, and only ever faithful friend,

For love of us rejected, tortured, torn —

And we were there; who on the third day rose

Again, and still looks after us; descend

Into each wrecked unstable house; be born

In us, a Child among Your former foes.