Guy Wetmore Carryl Professions : Poet Born : March 4, 1873 Died : April 1, 1904 Browse All Authors Top 3 quotes by Guy Wetmore Carryl O Christmas Sun! What holy task is thine! Guy Wetmore Carryl tasks christmas world The Moral is that gardeners pine, Whene'er no pods adorn the vine. Of all sad words experience gleans, The saddest are: It might have beans. Guy Wetmore Carryl vines moral might O Christmas Sun! What holy task is thine! To fold a world in the embrace of God! To spread, where'er thy golden feet have trod, The benediction of His grace divine: To hold the promise of His final plan Blazing before the eyes of human-kind, And, at thy setting, leave His love enshrined Anew in the reminded heart of man! Guy Wetmore Carryl christmas eye heart Similar Authors Abdellatif Laabi poet Ihara Saikaku poet Abram Joseph Ryan poet Ingeborg Bachmann poet Izumi Shikibu poet Bion of Smyrna poet All Authors