StoryTitle("caps", "The Song of a Shepherd-Boy at Bethlehem") ?>
StoryOrigin("center", SmallCapsText("Josephine Preston Peabody") ) ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(28, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Sleep, Thou little Child of Mary:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", " Rest Thee now.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Though these hands be rough from shearing", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", " And the plough,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Yet they shall not ever fail Thee,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When the waiting nations hail Thee,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Bringing palms unto their King.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", " Now—I sing.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Sleep, Thou little Child of Mary,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", " Hope divine.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "If Thou wilt but smile upon me,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", " I will twine", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Blossoms for Thy garlanding.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Thou'rt so little to be King,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", " God's Desire!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", " Not a brier", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Shall be left to grieve Thy brow;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", " Rest Thee now.", "") ?>
PagePoem(29, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Sleep, Thou little Child of Mary.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", " Some fair day", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Wilt Thou, as Thou wert a brother,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", " Come away", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Over hills and over hollow?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "All the lambs will up and follow,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Follow but for love of Thee.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", " Lov'st Thou me?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Sleep, Thou little Child of Mary;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", " Rest Thee now.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I that watch am come from sheep-stead", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", " And from plough.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Thou wilt have disdain of me", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When Thou'rt lifted, royally,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Very high for all to see:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", " Smilest Thou?", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>