His round blue eyes with wonder shone,
His bashful fears had fled:
"I saw--I saw the cattle kneel
Upon their strawy bed;
And in a manger lay the Child--
A light shone round His head!"
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"He must have dreamed," the good man said,
"A vision, it would seem."
"Nay, master, for the light shone bright
On stall and loft and beam."
Then said the good wife, "I, perhaps,
Might go and dream this dream!"