Into the Darkest Hour - Madeleine L'Engle
It was a time like this,
war and tumult of war,
a horror in the air,
Hungry yawned the abyss-
and yet there came the star
and the child most wonderfully there.
It was a time like this
of fear and lust for power,
license and greed and blight-
and yet the Prince of Bliss
came into the darkest hour
in quiet and silent light.
And in a time like this
how celebrate his birth
when all things fall apart?
Ah! wonderful it is
with no room on the earth
the stable is our heart.