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# The Nativity, by CS Lewis
- URL: https://mereorthodoxy.com/the-nativity/
- Published: 2008-12-23T11:00:31.000Z
- Updated: 2026-04-20T21:14:44.000Z
- Description: The Nativity, by CS Lewis
- Author: Mere Orthodoxy
- Tags: Keith E. Buhler, Poetry

Among the oxen (like an ox I’m slow)  
I see a glory in the stable grow  
Which, with the ox’s dullness might at length  
Give me an ox’s strength.

Among the asses (stubborn I as they)  
I see my Saviour where I looked for hay;  
So may my beastlike folly learn at least  
The patience of a beast.

Among the sheep (I like a sheep have strayed)  
I watch the manger where my Lord is laid;  
Oh that my baa-ing nature would win thence  
Some woolly innocence!