<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=459789" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Sonnet on the Morning of Christ's Birth</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">This starry dawn – the wise men yet afar –<br>the shepherds are abed, their night’s task done.<br>Is Mary tired? Or, as one untouched? <br>All birth’s a miracle; no less this one.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The cattle have bestirred at hint of morn, <br>the thought of feeding making moist their muzzle; <br>straw is rustling as they, manger-drawn, <br>find unfamiliar form – so warm – to nuzzle.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What were the first words Joseph softly said<br>to Mary, as dawn broke, this day of days? <br>And who, sent from the inn to cattle-shed, <br>to feed and lay fresh straw, fell still in praise? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">How long, this morn, before the murmured sound<br>of voices in the street, as Word gets round?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</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=459789" data-title="Sonnet on the Morning of Christ's Birth de Michael Shepherd" data-description="This starry dawn – the wise men yet afar – the shepherds are abed, their night’s task done. Is Mary tired? Or, as one untouched? All birth’s a miracle; no less this one. The cattle have bestirred at hint of morn, the thought of feeding ..."></div> </div> </div>

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