Little Lights

Somehow the little colored lights

Are brighter than the rest;

Of all the lovely Christmas sights,

The little lights are best.

The rows and strings of lights we see

Are imaged on the snow;

But little lights upon the trees

Shine forth with mystic glow.

They shine like jewels rich and rare,

In red, and blue, and green;

They look like flowers, bright and fair,

That summer days have seen.

Perhaps the little lights are blessed

With healing, light and mild,

Because the burn and shine their best

For Mary's little Child.

~ J. Harold Gwynne