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XXVI.

So when the sun in bed,
Curtained with cloudy red,

Pillows his chin upon an orient
wave,

The flocking shadows pale
Troop to the infernal jail,

Each fettered ghost slips to his
several grave:

And the yellow-skirted Fayes
Fly after the night-steeds, leaving
their moon-loved maze.

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Blest cottage that hath flowers in winter spread!

blessed grass, that hath the grace To deck and be a carpet to that place! Thus sang unto the sounds of oaten reed,

Though withered,

Before the Babe, the shepherds bowed on knees;

And springs ran nectar, honey dropped from trees.

DRUMMOND.

THE ANGELS.

RUN, shepherds, run where Bethlehem blest appears.

We bring the best of news; be not dismayed:

A Saviour there is born more old than years,

Amidst heaven's rolling height this earth who stayed.

In a poor cottage inned, a virgin maid

A weakling did him bear, who all upbears;

There is he poorly swaddled, in manger laid,

To whom too narrow swaddlings are our spheres:

Run, shepherds, run, and solemnize his birth.

This is that night-no, day, grown great with bliss,

In which the power of Satan broken

is:

In heaven be glory, peace unto the earth!

Thus singing, through the air the angels swarm,

And cope of stars re-echoed the

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