Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, LIKE ONE I KNOW, by NANCY CAMPBELL



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First Line: Little christ was good, and lay
Last Line: Still had been a-worshipping.
Subject(s): Jesus Christ


Little Christ was good, and lay
Sleeping, smiling in the hay;
Never made the cows' round eyes
Open wider at His cries;
Never, when the night was dim,
Startled guardian Seraphim,
Who above Him in the beams
Kept their watch round His white dreams;
Let the rustling brown mice creep
Undisturbed about His sleep.
Yet if it had not been so--
Had He been like one I know,
Fought with little fumbling hands,
Kicked inside His swaddling bands,
Puckered wilful crimsoning face--
Mary Mother, full of grace,
At that little naughty thing,
Still had been a-worshipping.





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