The Nativity
"The Nativity" by C.S. Lewis is a quiet, devotional poem set in the stable at Bethlehem, where the speaker places himself among the ox, the ass, and the sheep — not as a worshipper above them, but as their equal in weakness. Each animal becomes a mirror: the ox's slowness, the donkey's stubbornness, the sheep's tendency to stray all reflect the speaker's own faults. The poem's central longing is beautifully humble — to learn virtue not from angels, but from beasts gathered around the manger.
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