"The Nativity" by C.S. Lewis

Many of you are familiar with the wonderful writings of C.S. Lewis. This weekend I found a Christmas poem he wrote. On the C.S. Lewish Foundation blog they wrote: "Rather than anthropomorphizing the beasts by giving them a ‘glad spell’ which allows them to participate in the human spirit of Christmas generosity, he inverts the familiar sentiment and wishes that he was able to respond to Christ’s presence with the virtues which symbolically belong to these same animals." (http://www.cslewis.org/blog/among-the-oxen-a-reflection-on-cs-lewis-christmas-poetry/)

THE NATIVITY

Among the oxen (like an ox I’m slow)
I see a glory in the stable grow
Which, with the ox’s dullness might at length
Give me an ox’s strength.

Among the asses (stubborn I as they)
I see my Saviour where I looked for hay;
So may my beastlike folly learn at least
The patience of a beast.

Among the sheep (I like a sheep have strayed)
I watch the manger where my Lord is laid;
Oh that my baa-ing nature would win thence
Some woolly innocence!