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By Mary Elizabeth Coleridge

Coleridge, Mary E. (1861-1907)

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LXXX

[I saw a stable, low and very bare]

I saw a stable, low and very bare,
A little child in a manger.
The oxen knew Him, had Him in their care,
To men He was a stranger.
The safety of the world was lying there,
And the world's danger.