“Christmas Eve 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 was lying there, And the world's danger.” MenWorldChildrenLittlesCareLyingSawsDangerLowsSafetyStrangerStableChristmas EveOxen Author:Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
“The so-called mother of the child isn't the child's begetter, but only a sort of nursing soil for the new-sown seed. The man, the one on top, is the true parent, while she, a stranger, foster's a stranger's sprout.” MenChildrenMotherParentHe ManStrangerSeedsSoilNursingSprouts Book:The Complete Aeschylus: Volume I: The Oresteia Source: The Complete Aeschylus: Volume I: The Oresteia