Carols
We saw Him sleeping in His manger bed And falter’d feet and heart in holy dread Until we heard the maiden mother call : Come hither, sirs, He is so sweet and small. She was more fair than ye have look’d upon She was the moon, and He her little sun; 0 Lord, we cry’d, have mercy on us all! But ah, quoth she, He is so sweet and small. Whereat the blessed beasts with one accord Gave tongue to praise their little Blessed Lord. Oxen and asses singing in their stall; The King of Kings He is so sweet and small. —Gerald Bullett. Which are the lightest?—Scotsmen, Irishmen or Englishmen ?—Englishmen. Although in Ireland there are men of Cork, and in Scotland men of Aye (air), in England—bn the Thames, nay—there are lightermen.
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Southland Times, Issue 21273, 19 December 1930, Page 18
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134Carols Southland Times, Issue 21273, 19 December 1930, Page 18
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