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The Oxen (Hardy)

from Poetry and Music 3 by Toby Darling

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The Oxen
By Thomas Hardy

Intro: Bm G F#m Bm, F#m Bm F#m Bm

Bm G F#m Bm
Christmas Eve, and twelve of the clock.
F#m D C#m Bm
“Now they are all on their knees,”
C#m F#m C#m F#m
An elder said as we sat in a flock
Em Bm Em Bm
By the embers in hearthside ease.

D A Em Bm
We pictured the meek mild creatures where
F#m Bm F#m Bm
They dwelt in their strawy pen,
D A Bm F#m
Nor did it occur to one of us there
G A Bm
To doubt they were kneeling then.

So fair a fancy few would weave
In these years! Yet, I feel,
If someone said on Christmas Eve,
“Come; see the oxen kneel,

“In the lonely barton by yonder coomb
Our childhood used to know,”
I should go with him in the gloom,
Hoping it might be so.

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from Poetry and Music 3, released April 27, 2016

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