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“In the Bleak Midwinter”: An English carol, a Canadian nativity
Dec. 23, 2025
I have come, over time, to read Christmas through a single word. Not joy or hope or even love but a quieter and more demanding term: sufficed. Christina Rossetti uses it once, almost without emphasis, in “In the Bleak Midwinter”, when she writes that a stable-place sufficed the Lord God Almighty. It is an astonishingly […]
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