Somewhere in the
this night and God
An angel sat upon a
While thinking hard
To return once more to the He had been And a gift for all of man He was to behind
But this gift he was to leave Could not be from the heavenly court And how could he leave something If nothing be brought
Now this was a puzzle And he knew not how to he suddenly felt a prayer from a child Reach into his heart
And his time was limited To this one night of the He not ignore this child's request So he he would start here
For though this night was Eve And dreams were all down below on earth He had felt this child to doubt
A child who should have been Instead was climbing attic With her solitary And a Christmas prayer
Now, when angels they are They rarely appear But more often not They whisper in one's ear
And when whisper to a child On nights when still glistens The chances are much still That, child, will listen
So in this room shadows live And that failed learn time forgives friends, please stay awhile Our story with one small child Who spends this night in an attic Where dreams are like sleeping hearts
Now, if you wonder why this is here With all asleep and Christmas She's come up here to look for In this closest to the roof
For she had from friends who feel That nothing on this night is That no adults believe In all things of Christmas Eve
This night that seems to a spell Is the same world, tinseled well And as she lay in bed that She wondered if they might be
And she then who she might ask About this question that had been For adults, she had told, you see Are part of this
But in her mind clear The of a child's idea
There was one presence alone Would what she had known
But this man, he was so seen For he only arrived children dreamed But if what she had believed was He should appear this night So on this with so much at stake determined that she would stay awake
But then a problem to mind It that fate had not been kind For chimney had been closed that year bricks might fall, her father feared
So she had another plan To when on the roof he lands So with the ghosts here by fate Upon this night she and waits
Now as I'm sure you all must When one is waiting, moves slow And as she wondered to do (her seeming far too few)
The Angel that child to look Behind a yellowed of books Among these memories as junk She noticed there a well worn
It was filled with toys and one old And letters underneath Some ornaments, a rung phone And with a gramophone
A mix of long forgotten With no longer heard All threads of long lives But here somehow had survived
letters that had caught her eye Now in her they seemed alive And as each letter she A small piece of the past was
For Christmas a life long spell And most of all remembers And as that child explored the Once again that spell was
And as the began to read this night of Christmas Eve The plan, as you can tell It was working well So as the gently arise In our first we'll summarize