2 He found the shepherd’s home where he was cradled when a babe; here he abode.
3 He went up to the hills where more than thirty years before the shepherds watch their flocks and heard the messenger of peace exclaim:
4 At midnight in a cave in Bethlehem the Prince of Peace is born.
5 And shepherds still were there, and sheep still fed upon the hills.
6 And in the valley near great flocks of snow-white doves were flying to and fro.
7 And when the shepherds knew that Jesus, whom the people called the king, had come, they came from near and far to speak to him.
8 And Jesus said to them, Behold the life of innocence and peace!
9 White is the symbol of the virtuous and pure! the lamb of innocence; the dove of peace;
10 And it was meet that love should come in human form amid such scenes as these.
11 Our father Abraham walked through these vales, and on these very hills he watched his flocks and herds.