Keeping Sacred Time with Christina Rossetti :: First Sunday in Advent

This year I have been sharing Christina Rossetti's liturgical poetry with my children, and I'd like to share some of our favorite selections with you too.  You can read more of this series here, and more of Rossetti's poetry for Advent and Christmas here.  Wishing you a blessed Advent!

Come,' Thou dost say to Angels,

To blessed Spirits, 'Come':

'Come,' to the lambs of Thine own flock,

Thy little ones, 'Come home.'

'Come,' from the many-mansioned house

The gracious word is sent;

'Come,' from the ivory palaces

Unto the Penitent.

O Lord, restore us deaf and blind,

Unclose our lips though dumb:

Then say to us, 'I will come with speed,'

And we will answer, 'Come.'

12 December 1851