PREPARATION OF THE KING - part 2

  
                               Matthew 2

SOME WISE MEN SAW A BRIGHT NEW STAR
AND FOLLOWED FROM A COUNTRY FAR
TO BRING AS GIFTS TO ONE FORETOLD
SWEET FRANKINCENSE WITH MYRRH AND GOLD.

BUT WHEN KING HEROD HEARD THE NEWS
HIS ANGER FLARED AGAINST THE JEWS
AND SO HE ASKED WHERE HE COULD FIND
THIS FUTURE KING THEY HAD IN MIND.

BUT WHEN THE MAGI FOUND THE BOY
THEY WORSHIPED HIM WITH HOLY JOY
AND SO THEIR HEARTS WERE CHANGED THAT DAY
BUT TRAVELED HOME ANOTHER WAY.

AS THREATS OF DEATH CAME FROM THE KING
AND ROMAN SWORDS BEGAN TO SWING
THE FAMILY OF THE CHILD WENT DOWN
TO HIDE IN ONE SMALL EGYPT TOWN.

IN TIME THE ANGEL CALLED AND SAID
THAT HEROD HAD BEEN STRICKEN DEAD
SO NAZARETH THEN BECAME THEIR HOME
YET IN THOSE YEARS SO LITTLE KNOWN.
--B. Pent