A snowy field! A stable piled
With straw! A donkey's sleepy pow!
A Mother beaming on a Child!
A Manger, and a munching cow!
- These we all remember now -
And airy voices, heard afar!
And three Magicians, and a Star!
Two thousand times of snow declare
That on the Christmas of the year
There is a singing in the air;
And all who listen for it hear
A fairy chime, a seraph strain,
Telling He is born again,
- That all we love is born again.
by
James Stephens