{"collection":"time","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/time/50x/50x11.htm","path":"time/50x/50x11.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/time/50x/50x11.htm","text":"Fifty Christmas Poems for Children, by Florence B. Hyett, [1923]\nAS Joseph was a walking\n He heard an angel sing:\n \"This night shall be born\n Our heavenly king.\n\"He neither shall be born\n In housen nor in hall,\n Nor in the place of Paradise,\n But in an ox's stall.\n\"He neither shall be clothed\n In purple nor in pall,\n But all in fair linen,\n As were babies all.\n\"He neither shall be rocked\n In silver nor in gold,\n But in a wooden cradle,\n That rocks on the mould.\n\"He neither shall be christened\n In white wine nor red,\n But with fair spring water,\n With which we were christened.\"\nThen Mary took her young son,\n And set him on her knee:\n \"I pray thee now, dear child,\n Tell how this world shall be.\"\n\"O I shall be as dead, mother,\n As the stones in the wall;\n O the stones in the street, mother,\n Shall mourn for me all.\n\"And upon a Wednesday\n My vow I will make,\n And upon Good Friday\n My death I will take.\n\"Upon Easter-day, mother,\n My rising shall be;\n O the sun and the moon\n Shall uprise with me.\n\"The people shall rejoice,\n And the birds they shall sing,\n To see the uprising\n Of the heavenly king.\"\n--TRADITIONAL","title":"Fifty Christmas Poems for Children: Verses From \u201cThe Cherry-Tree Carol\u201d","type":"page"}