Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 167
the comfort lurked in the cypress-trees; joyful shepherds had quickly sped But faint came a whisper borne along on the Past rock and shadow, adown the hill, to kneel scented wings of the passing breeze: at the Saviours lowly bed ; Little gray lamb that prays this night, While, like the spirits of… … And patiently, longingly, out of the night, apart from the others,— far apart,—Came limping and sorrowful, all alone, the littlegray lamb of the weary heart,Murmuring, I must bide far away:I am not worthy — my fleece is gray. And the Christ Child looked upon humbled pride, at kings bent low on the…
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