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Dinah Craik on Christmas

1826–1887 England

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Give us one heart, one tongue, one faith, one love.

Thirty Years, Being Poems New and Old (1880)

Love, the master, goes in and out
Of his goodly chambers with song and shout,
Just as he please — just as he please.

Poems (1859)

When faith and hope fail, as they do sometimes, we must try charity, which is love in action. We must speculate no more on our duty, but simply do it. When we have done it, however blindly, perhaps Heaven will show us why.

Be loving, and you will never want for love; be humble, and you will never want for guiding.

Duty's a slave that keeps the keys,
But Love, the master goes in and out
Of his goodly chambers with song and shout,
Just as he please—just as he please.

[T]he only real parting is when there is no love left to part from.

God rest ye, little children; let nothing you afright,
For Jesus Christ, your Saviour, was born this happy night;
Along the hills of Galilee the white flocks sleeping lay,
When Christ, the child of Nazareth, was born on Christmas day.

Thirty Years, Being Poems New and Old (1880)

Mine to the core of the heart, my beauty!
Mine, all mine, and for love, not duty:
Love given willingly, full and free,
Love for love's sake — as mine to thee.
Duty's a slave that keeps the keys,
But Love, the master, goes in and out
Of his goodly chambers with song and shout,
Just as he please — just as he please.

Poems (1859)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Dinah Craik (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.