The Feast of the Nativity

From "The Vision of of the Shepherds" portion of W.H. Auden's “For the Time Being: A Christmas Oratorio": 

III

CHORUS OF ANGELS

Unto you a Child
A Son is given.
Praising, proclaiming
The Ingression of Love,
Earth's darkness invents
The blaze of Heaven,
And frigid silence
Mediates a song;
For great joy has filled
The narrow and the sad,
While the emphasis
Of the rough and big,
The abiding crag
And wandering wave,
Is on forgiveness:
Sing Glory to God
And good-will to men,
All, all, all of them.
Run to Bethlehem.

SHEPHERDS

Let us run to learn
How to love and run;
Let us run to Love.