Francis James Child

“ As Joseph was a walking,
he heard an angel sing:
'This night shall be born
our heavenly king.
'He neither shall be born
in housen nor in hall,
Nor in the place of Paradise,
but in an ox's stall. ”

“ Then Mary went home
with her heavy load.
Then Mary took her babe,
and sat him on her knee,
Saying, My dear son, tell me
what this world will be.
'O I shall be as dead, mother,
as the stones in the wall ”