'I saw a stable'

I saw a Stable'

Mary Coleridge
1861-1907

I saw a stable, low and very bare,
A little child in a manger.
The oxen knew him, had him in their care,
To men he was a stranger.
The safety of the world way lying there,
And the world's danger.


Mary Coleridge was the great-niece of the great English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge.