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LOS PASTORES DE BELEN: A SONG OF THE VIRGIN MOTHER, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As ye go through these palm-trees
Last Line: Stay ye the branches.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lope De Vega
Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Nativity, The; Virgin Mary


AS ye go through these palm-trees
O holy angels;
Sith sleepeth my child here
Still ye the branches

O Bethlehem palm-trees
That move to the anger
Of winds in their fury,
Tempestuous voices,

Make ye no clamor,
Run ye less swiftly,
Sith sleepeth the child here
Still ye your branches.

He the divine child
Is here a-wearied
Of weeping the earth-pain,
Here for his rest would he
Cease from his mourning,
Only a little while,
Sith sleepeth this child here
Stay ye the branches.

Cold be the fierce winds,
Treacherous round him.
Ye see that I have not
Wherewith to guard him,
O angels, divine ones
That pass us a-flying,
Sith sleepeth my child here
Stay ye the branches.





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