<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=37831" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Shepherds in Judea</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh, the Shepherds in Judea,<br> They are pacing to and fro.<br>For the air grows chill at twilight<br> And the weanling lambs are slow!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Leave, O lambs, the dripping sedges, quit the bramble and the brier,<br>Leave the fields of barley stubble, for we light the watching fire;<br>Twinkling fires across the twilight, and a bitter watch to keep,<br>Lest the prowlers come a-thieving where the flocks unguarded sleep.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Oh, the Shepherds in Judea,<br> They are singing soft and low—<br> Song the blessed angels taught them<br> All the centuries ago!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There was never roof to hide them, there were never walls to bind;<br>Stark they lie beneath the star-beams, whom the blessed angels find,<br>With the huddled flocks upstarting, wondering if they hear aright.<br>While the Kings come riding, riding, solemn shadows in the night.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Oh, the Shepherds in Judea,<br> They are thinking, as they go,<br> Of the light that broke their watching<br> On the hillside in the snow!—</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Scattered snow along the hillside, white as springtime fleeces are,<br>With the whiter wings above them and the glory-streaming star—</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Guiding-star across the housetops; never fear the Shepherds felt<br>Till they found the Babe in manger where the kindly cattle knelt.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Oh, the Shepherds in Judea!—<br> Do you think the Shepherds know<br> How the whole round earth is brightened<br> In the ruddy Christmas glow?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">How the sighs are lost in laughter, and the laughter brings the tears,<br>As the thoughts of men go seeking back across the darkling years<br>Till they find the wayside stable that the star-led Wise Men found,<br>With the Shepherds, mute, adoring, and the glory shining round!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Mary+Austin">Mary Austin</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=37831" data-title="The Shepherds in Judea de Mary Austin" data-description="Oh, the Shepherds in Judea,/ They are pacing to and fro./For the air grows chill at twilight/ And the weanling lambs are slow!/Leave, O lambs, the dripping sedges, quit the bramble and the brier,/Leave the fields of barley stubble, for we light th..."></div> </div> </div>

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