Nativity

A Poem for Christmas

Among the oxen (like an ox I'm slow)
I see a glory in the stable glow 
Which, with the ox's dullness might at length 
       Give me an ox's strength

Among the asses (stubborn I as they) 
I see my Saviour where I looked for hay; 
So may my beastlike folly learn at least 
       The patience of a beast. 

Among the sheep (I like a sheep have strayed) 
I watch the manger where my Lord is laid; 
Oh that my baa-ing nature would win thence 
      Some woolly innocence! 

-C.S. Lewis, Poems

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