SINGING STARS
"What sawest thou, Orion, thou hunter of the star-lands,
On that night star-sown and azure when thou cam'st in splendour sweeping,
And amid thy starry brethren from the near lands and the far lands
All the night above a stable on the earth thy watch wert keeping?"
On that night star-sown and azure when thou cam'st in splendour sweeping,
And amid thy starry brethren from the near lands and the far lands
All the night above a stable on the earth thy watch wert keeping?"
"O, I saw the stable surely, and the young Child and the Mother,
And the placid beasts still gazing with their mild eyes full of loving.
And I saw the trembling radiance of the Star, my lordliest brother,
Light the earth and all the heavens as he kept his guard unmoving.
And the placid beasts still gazing with their mild eyes full of loving.
And I saw the trembling radiance of the Star, my lordliest brother,
Light the earth and all the heavens as he kept his guard unmoving.
"There were kings that came from Eastward with their ivory, spice, and sendal,
With gold fillets in their dark hair, and gold-broidered robes and stately;
And the shepherds, gazing starward, over yonder hill did wend all,
And the silly sheep went meekly, and the wise dog marvelled greatly.
With gold fillets in their dark hair, and gold-broidered robes and stately;
And the shepherds, gazing starward, over yonder hill did wend all,
And the silly sheep went meekly, and the wise dog marvelled greatly.
151
