Sunday, December 24, 2006

At The Gate of the Year

At a most hopeless point in the War, George the VI of England felt he did not have a light at the end of the tunnel to offer his poor beleaguered subjects.

During his Christmas radio broadcast of 1939, the King shared an excerpt from a poem by M. Louise Haskins:

I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year
'Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown.'

And he replied, 'Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the hand of God
That shall be to you better than light and safer than a known way!'


Click for more information, and the complete poem.

Collected by Marylee Manson Armour
in 1940

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