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[ix] [For the Natiuitie of our Lord.]
O than the fairest Day, thrice fairer Night!Night to best Dayes in which a Sunne doth rise,
Of which that golden Eye, which cleares the Skies,
Is but a sparkling Ray, a Shadow light:
And blessed yee (in sillie Pastors sight)
Milde Creatures, in whose warme Cribe now lyes
That Heauen-sent Yongling, holie-Maide-borne Wight,
Midst, end, beginning of our Prophesies:
Blest Cotage that hath Flowres in Winter spred,
Though withered blessed Grasse, that hath the grace
To decke, and bee a Carpet to that Place.
Thus sang, vnto the Soundes of oaten Reed,
Before the Babe, the Sheepheards bow'd on knees,
And Springs ranne Nectar, Honey dropt from Trees.
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