<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=115083" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Shepherd's Song</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sweet music, sweeter far<br> Than any song is sweet:<br> Sweet music, heavenly rare,<br> Mine ears, O peers, doth greet.<br> You gentle flocks, whose fleeces pearled with dew.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Resemble heaven, whom golden drops make bright,<br>Listen, O listen, now, O not to you<br> Our pipes make sport to shorten weary night:<br> But voices most divine<br> Make blissful harmony:<br> Voices that seem to shine,<br> For what else clears the sky?<br>Tunes can we hear, but not the singers see.<br>The tunes divine, and so the singers be.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Lo, how the firmament<br> Within an azure fold<br> The flock of stars hath pent,<br> That we might them behold,<br>Yet from their beams proceedeth not this light,<br> Nor can their crystals such reflection give.<br>What then doth make the element so bright?<br> The heavens are come down upon earth tc live<br> But hearken to the song,<br> Glory to glory's King,<br> And peace all men among.<br> These quiristers do sing.<br>Angels they are, as also (shepherds) He<br>Whom in our fear we do admire to see.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Let not amazement blind<br> Your souls, said he, annoy:<br> To you and all mankind<br> My message bringeth joy.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For lo! the world's great Shepherd now is born,<br> A blessed Babe, an Infant full of power:<br>After long night uprisen is the morn,<br> Renowning Bethlem in the Saviour.<br> Sprung is the perfect day,<br> By prophets seen afar:<br> Sprung is the mirthful May,<br> Which winter cannot mar.<br>In David's city doth this Sun appear<br>Clouded in flesh, yet, shepherds, sit we here!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Edmund+Bolton">Edmund Bolton</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=115083" data-title="The Shepherd's Song de Edmund Bolton" data-description="Sweet music, sweeter far/ Than any song is sweet:/ Sweet music, heavenly rare,/ Mine ears, O peers, doth greet./ You gentle flocks, whose fleeces pearled with dew./ Resemble heaven, whom golden drops make bright,/Listen, O listen, now, O not to..."></div> </div> </div>

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