Merry Advent

Now burn, new born to the world,
Doubled-natured name,
The heaven-flung, heart-fleshed, maiden-furled Miracle-in-Mary-of-Flame,
Mid-numbered He in three of the thunder-throne!
Not a dooms-day dazzle in his coming nor dark as he came:
Kind, but royally reclaiming his own;
A released shower, let flash to the shire, not a lightning of fire hard hurled.

Gerard Manley Hopkins