The Burning Babe Lyrics - If On A Winter's Night... - Sting

As I in hoary winter's night 

Stood shivering in the snow, 

Surprised I was with sudden heat 

Which made my heart to glow; 

And lifting up a fearful eye 

To view what fire was near, 

A pretty babe all burning bright 

Did in the air appear; 

Who, scorched with excessive heat, 

Such floods of tears did shed, 

As though His floods should quench His flames, 

Which with His tears were bred: 

'Alas!' quoth He, 'but newly born 

In fiery heats I fry, 

Yet none approach to warm their hearts 

Or feel my fire but I! 

'My faultless breast the furnace is; 

The fuel, wounding thorns; 

Love is the fire, and sighs the smoke; 

The ashes, shames and scorns; 

The fuel Justice layeth on, 

And Mercy blows the coals, 

The metal in this furnace wrought 

Are men's defiled souls: 

For which, as now on fire I am 

To work them to their good, 

So will I melt into a bath, 

To wash them in my blood.' 

With this He vanish'd out of sight 

And swiftly shrunk away, 

And straight I called unto mind 

That it was Christmas Day. 

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