Burgundian Carol

Bernard LaMonnoye, Oscar Brand @ wiki, Traditional.

The winter season of the year,
When to this world our Lord was born,
The ox and donkey, so they say,
Did keep His Holy Presence warm.
How many oxen and donkeys now,
If they were there when first He came,
How many oxen and donkeys you know
At such a time would do the same?

As soon as to these humble beasts
Appeared our Lord, so mild and sweet,
With joy they knelt before His Grace,
And gently kissed His tiny feet.
If we, like oxen and donkeys then,
In spite of all the things we’ve heard
Would be like oxen and donkeys then,
We’d hear the truth, believe His word.