Advent IV

From the poem, “Advent, 1955” by John Betjamen:

The world seems traveling into space,
And traveling at a faster pace
Than in the leisured summer weather
When we and it sit out together,
For now we feel the world spin round
On some momentous journey bound —
Journey to what? to whom? to where?
The Advent bells call out ‘Prepare,
Your world is journeying to the birth
Of God made Man for us on earth.’

Read the entire poem, or hear it read by Garrison Keillor.