"If you take any activity, any art, any discipline, any skill, take it and push it as far as it will go, push it beyond where it has ever been before, push it to the wildest edge of edges, then you force it into the realm of MAGIC " ---Tom Robbins

Wednesday 24 December 2014

Dawn Mass



Photo Credits: Google images- www.clubbnb.com


As dawn painted the sky pitch dark,
Nine days prior Christmas, they mark
Wake up before the sun is high
Pitch dark, the dawn colored the sky

When cock crows cock-a-doodle-doo
Though feel sleepy in morning dew
Tic-tac, 3 a.m., the clock draws
Cock-a-doodle-doo, when cock crows

Everyone is getting ready
Heading to the church so early
Though breeze blew cold and makes bone chills
Getting ready, everyone is

Young may time be, streets are busy
Smell of rice cakes makes you hungry
Outside the cathedral you’ll see
Streets are busy, young may time be

Attend mass, keep spirit alive
People of different walks of life
To hear gospel they never pass
Keep spirit alive, attend mass

A little sacrifice, they say
O’ grant our wishes, God we pray
Complete nine rites, receive good prize
They say: “a little sacrifice”

This tradition never weakens
Hope to believers it brightens
For Christ this faithful devotion
Never weakens, this tradition




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