Great poems

A Simple Nail

It's Christmas time at our house
And we are putting up the tree.
I wish I could find one simple way
To remember Christ's gift to me.

Some little sign or symbol
To show friends stopping by
The little babe was born one day
But he really came to die.

Some symbol of his nail pierced hands
The blood he shed for you and me
What if I hung a simple nail
Upon my Christmas tree?

A crimson bow tied 'round the nail
As his blood flowed down so free.
To save each person from their sin
And redeem us for all eternity.

I know it was his love for us
That held him to that tree
But when I see this simple nail
I know he died for me.

-Author Unknown 

No Enemies

You have no enemies, you say?

Alas! my friend, the boast is poor;

He who has mingled in the fray,

Of duty, that the brave endure, Must have made foes!

If you have none,

Small is the work that you have done.

You’ve hit no traitor on the hip,

You’ve dashed no cup from perjured lip,

You’ve never turned the wrong to right,

You’ve been a coward in the fight.

-- Charles Mackay, Scottish poet

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2Laura Davis and Judy Bell