I fall not on my sad clay face before ye;

I look on His. I know

My spirit which dilateth with the woe

Of His mortality,

May well contain your glory.

Yea, drop your lids more low.

Ye are but fellow-worshipers with me!

Sleep, sleep, my worshiped One!

We sat among the stalls at Bethlehem,

The dumb kine from their fodder turning them,