Tuesday, September 9, 2025

Before The Paling of The Stars

 Before The Paling of The Stars

Before the paling of the stars,
 Before the winter morn,
 Before the earliest cock-crow,
 Jesus Christ was born;
 Born in a stable,
 Cradled in a manger.
In the world His hands had made, 
Born a stranger.

 Priest and king lay fast asleep
 In Jerusalem.
 Young and old lay fast asleep
 In crowded Bethlehem.
 Saint and angel, ox and ass,
 Kept a watch together
 Before the Christmas daybreak
 In the wintry weather.

Jesus on His Mother's breast
 In the stable cold,
 Spotless Lamb of God was He,
Shepherd of the fold;
 Let us kneel with Mary Maid,
 With Joseph bent and hoary
 With saint and angel, ox and ass,
To hail the King of Glory.

 - Christina E. Rossetti.

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