Mary's Song

 

Your royal bed

Is made of hay

In a cattle-shed.

Sleep, King Jesus,

Do not fear,

Joseph is watching

And waiting near.

 

Warm in the wintry air

You lie,

The ox and the donkey

Standing by,

With summer eyes

They seem to say:

Welcome, Jesus,

On Christmas Day!

 

Sleep, King Jesus:

Your diamond crown

High in the sky

Where the stars look dawn.

Let your reign

Of love begin,

That all the world

May enter in.

 

by

Charles Causley