Destroyers and Other Verses/A Wood-fire Bright and Candle-light

She…

A wood-fire bright and candle-light

Cast golden shadows on the gloom.

You came, my dear, and with you fear

Fled from the corners of my room.

My sad heart swells with gladness, bells

Ring peace to earth and mercy mild

On Christmas-Eve, and I believe

With rapture like a little child.

So year by year for you, my dear,

I set my radiant Christmas-tree,

Tall, green and straight to celebrate

My little love’s nativity.