The Oxen
Thomas Hardy
1840 to 1928
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"Now they are all on their knees,"
They dwelt in their strawy pen,
An elder said as we sat in a flock
"Come; see the oxen kneel,
If someone said on Christmas Eve,
So fair a fancy few would weave
I should go with him in the gloom,
"In the lonely barton by yonder coomb
Nor did it occur to one of us there
Our childhood used to know,"
By the embers in hearthside ease.
To doubt they were kneeling then.
Christmas Eve, and twelve of the clock.
We pictured the meek mild creatures where
Hoping it might be so.
In these years! Yet, I feel,