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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