<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=345583" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Preparations</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">YET if His Majesty, our sovereign lord, <br>Should of his own accord <br>Friendly himself invite, <br>And say 'I'll be your guest to-morrow night,' <br>How should we stir ourselves, call and command <br>All hands to work! 'Let no man idle stand! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Set me fine Spanish tables in the hall; <br>See they be fitted all; <br>Let there be room to eat <br>And order taken that there want no meat. <br>See every sconce and candlestick made bright, <br>That without tapers they may give a light. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Look to the presence: are the carpets spread, <br>The dazie o'er the head, <br>The cushions in the chairs, <br>And all the candles lighted on the stairs? <br>Perfume the chambers, and in any case <br>Let each man give attendance in his place!' </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thus, if a king were coming, would we do; <br>And 'twere good reason too; <br>For 'tis a duteous thing <br>To show all honour to an earthly king, <br>And after all our travail and our cost, <br>So he be pleased, to think no labour lost. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But at the coming of the King of Heaven <br>All 's set at six and seven; <br>We wallow in our sin, <br>Christ cannot find a chamber in the inn. <br>We entertain Him always like a stranger, <br>And, as at first, still lodge Him in the manger.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Anonymous">Anonymous</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=345583" data-title="Preparations de Anonymous" data-description="YET if His Majesty, our sovereign lord, Should of his own accord Friendly himself invite, And say 'I'll be your guest to-morrow night,' How should we stir ourselves, call and command All hands to work! 'Let no man idle stand! 'Set me fine S..."></div> </div> </div>

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