Poem: Bethlehem

As I mentioned last week, for Sundays during Christmas in July,  I am trying to find meaningful poems to share with you all.  Here is one,  by an unknown author,  that I recently found:

Bethlehem

A little child,
A shining star.
A stable rude,
The door ajar.
Yet in that place, 
So crude, forlorn,
The Hope of all 
The world was born.
~ Anonymous

How beautiful, don't you agree?  He is our only Hope.

The illustration at the top of the post is a page from one of my vintage Christmas carol books.