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Show LIKE BETHLEHEM. Guarding their flocks, that hallowed night of old, The shepherds saw Judea like a gem Flashing- her lights o'er humble Bethlehem. Unto those simple watchers of the fold Came echoes of the feasting: did they hold t Vain longings in their hearts? Did they condemn, But human-like, what God had planned for them Aspiring to the power, and the gold? But lo! unto their watching eyes was given The glory of earth's one sweet night of heaven! So we, repining oft. for things afar. - ' The worldly things, that vain, and empty are, . Forget the little city of out heart Where lies our htaven, glorious, and. apart. Catholic World. . X. |