Today’s Poem: The House of Christmas

The place where God was homeless / And all men are at home

Fritz von Uhde, Winter landscape, Christmas Eve, 1890 (Wikimedia Commons)

The House of Christmas

by G.K. Chesterton

There fared a mother driven forth
Out of an inn to roam;
In the place where she was homeless
All men are at home.
The crazy stable close at hand,
With shaking timber and shifting sand,
Grew a stronger thing to abide and stand
Than the square …