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the holy innocents...
December 28
Book of Common Prayer Calendar
December 28
or January 11
Book of Alternative Services
Calendar
Innocent's Song
The Holy
Innocents
is commemorated
December 28 or
January 11
by Charles Causley
 Who's
that knocking on the window,
Who's that standing at the door,
What are all those presents
Laying on the kitchen floor?
Who is the smiling stranger
With hair as white as gin,
What is he doing with the children
And who could have let him in?
Why has he rubies on his
fingers,
A cold, cold crown on his head,
Why, when he caws his carol,
Does the salty snow run red?
Why does he ferry my fireside
As a spider on a thread,
His fingers made of fuses
And his tongue of gingerbread?
Why does the world before him
Melt in a million suns,
Why do his yellow, yearning eyes
Burn like saffron buns?
Watch where he comes walking
Out of the Christmas
flame,
Dancing, double-talking:
Herod is his
name.
The Faber Book of Christmas : Faber and Faber : London and
Boston
Holy
Innocents
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Festivals
of Light
The
Slaughter of the Innocents
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