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'The High-King of Heaven was born in kindly Bethlehem at Christmas' – a 15th-century Irish Poem

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Michele Ainley

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Mary, the smooth white ewe, bore an
illustrious Lamb in the stall of an ass; she merited not a mean cold lodging
when the illustrious Lamb was with His mother.

The High-King of Heaven was born in kindly
Bethlehem at Christmas; when He was born He took a course from the sun so that
He warmed the world with His glowing heat.
The windows of the moon and ether opened at
the tidings, so that the sun flung wide his doors, heretofore there had been a
veil over his light.
The air was full of his radiance, ’twas
easy to notice it, it was one bright grove of angels reaching to heaven over
Holy Mary.

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Quiggin, Edmund Crosby ‘Prolegomena to the study of the later Irish bards 1200-1500′(Oxford,1911), 39.

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