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<\/a><\/div>\nNow the twilight of the year
\nComes, and Christmas draweth near.
\nSee, across the Advent sky
\nHow the clouds move quietly.
\nEarth is waiting, wrapped in sleep,
\nWaiting in a silence deep.
\nBirds are hid in bush and reed
\nFlowers are sleeping in their seed.<\/p>\n
Through the woodland to and fro \u2014Ann Ellerton<\/em><\/p>\n For today, the first of December and the first Sunday of Advent, a picture, and a poem by Ann Ellerton with which my daughter and I sometimes began our homeschooling day during this season. Now the twilight of the year Comes, and Christmas draweth near. See, across the Advent sky How the clouds move quietly.Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[62,23,17,3],"class_list":["post-6857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-illustration","tag-catholic","tag-festival","tag-penink","tag-watercolor"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6857"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6909,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6857\/revisions\/6909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nSilent-footed creatures go.
\nHedgehog curled in prickly ball
\nBurrows beneath the leaves that fall.
\nMan and beast and bird and flower
\nWaiting for the midnight hour
\nWaiting for the infant\u2019s birth
\nDown from Heaven, onto Earth.
\n<\/em><\/p>\n<\/a>Melissa<\/p>\n<\/a>Chuck<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"