Jeweled For Christmas Leila Pier King You have known, O beautiful tree, Skies of velvet in the crimson dawn, Intimate winds and sounds that betray The motherless and bewildered fawn. You have known communings with rain And sun, and the solitude of storm; Through years of growing, standing serene, You nested the birds and kept them warm. Transfigured now, O beautiful tree, Jeweled for Christmas, the time of His birth, Chosen with love for your grace as true As silver tones of a child's sweet mirth. You live in this room, your beauty unhurt, Your heaven-most branch illumed by the light Of a deathless star, which hallows the heart, This lonely night, this Holy Night.