The inn is full already; God’s Son lies in the hay–
O that my soul could enter  there and watch the night!
Come, earthly men, with earthly thought and sight,
Bondless  grace you win; in this straw thee weeps today
Who would ever weep for us; it were an idle pleasantry
To reverence a kingly cradle filled with straw.
In this crib there lies what the faithful longed to see
Who fulfills the Ages and shall our grief windraw.God lies there in our flesh; God, fatherless on earth,
God motherless in His Divinity; the Co-Creative Word;
God, the Father of the maid who conceived and gave Him birth,

And lies now at her feet.  Here lies…But be spurred
My soul, no longer to rhyme your rough-hewn praise:
The fittest speech is but the silence of a humble gaze.

–Constantine Huygens (1596-1687)

First Baptist Church of Perryville is located 1 and 1/2 miles east of Rt. 222.