Prison-Pietie or, Meditations Divine and Moral. Digested into Poetical Heads, On Mixt and Various Subjects. Whereunto is added A Panegyrick to The Right Reverend, and most Nobly descended, Henry, Lord Bishop of London. By Samuel Speed, Prisoner in Ludgate, London |
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On Christ's Nativity. |
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On Christ's Nativity.
Mysterious Miracle! the same should beA Lamb, a Shepherd, and a Lion too!
Yet so was he
Whom first the Shepherds knew,
And readily became
Sheep to their Shepherd-Lamb.
Shepherd of Angels, Men; and Lamb of God,
Lion of Judah: by these Titles keep
The Wolf from all thy harmless Sheep.
Let the whole World flock to thy Fold,
Jews and Gentiles, may they all come
In multitudes not to be told,
Thy Lambs that wander bring them home.
Glory be to God on high,
Glory to the Deity.
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