Merry Christmas if you celebrate it, and if you don’t, may you in any case enjoy bright stars and their weight of glory. The message of the day is an ancient one: peace on earth and goodwill to all men.

‘The stars shone so brightly that they made a weight of glory in the sky.’

Source: Elizabeth Goudge, I Saw Three Ships, illus. Margot Tomes (Boston: David R. Godine, 2009), p. 34

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