Then As Now ...
Then as now they clamoured In market, shop and bar, Deaf to the angels’ chorus And blind to the new star. Scenting fresh fields of blood, The Roman eagle mewed; Tired tyrannical men Their game of death pursued—
While under frosty starlight In the Galilean wild, The star and an'gel’s master Came as a weeping child,
To lie on a straw mattress' And threadbare blan\et torn, By shepherd fol\ befriended And in a stable born.
—James K. Baxter.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 27580, 23 December 1950, Page 5
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81Then As Now... Otago Daily Times, Issue 27580, 23 December 1950, Page 5
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