God’s Gift

 He did not use a silvery box,

   Or paper green and red,

 God laid His Christmas gift to men

   Within a manger bed.

 No silken cord was used to bind

   The gift sent from above.

 'Twas wrapped in swaddling clothes and bound

   In cords of tender love.

 There was no evergreen to which

   His precious gift was tied:

 Upon a bare tree on a hill

   His precious gift of God.

 With mighty hand He lifted it

   From out the stony grave;

 Forevermore to every man

   A living gift He gave.

– Ruth Prentice