Yuletide Greetings

A Merry Christmas

To All Readers and Followers of 'The Land of Lost Content'

David Teniers Winter Landscape with Nativity 

Bethlehem Down

A carol by Bruce Blunt

"When He is King we will give him the King's gifts,

Myrrh for its sweetness, and gold for a crown,

Beautiful robes,” said the young girl to Joseph,

Fair with her first-born on Bethlehem Down.

Bethlehem Down is full of the starlight

Winds for the spices, and stars for the gold,

Mary for sleep, and for lullaby music

Songs of a shepherd by Bethlehem fold.

When He is King they will clothe him in grave-sheets,

Myrrh for embalming, and wood for a crown,

He that lies now in the white arms of Mary,

Sleeping so lightly on Bethlehem Down.

Here He has peace and a short while for dreaming,

Close huddled oxen to keep him from cold,

Mary for love, and for lullaby music

Songs of a shepherd by Bethlehem fold.