{"product_id":"the-oxen","title":"The Oxen","description":"\u003cp\u003eA setting for SATBarB (choir or solo voices) of Thomas Hardy's poem, The Oxen, originally published on Christmas Eve in 1915.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eChristmas Eve, and twelve of the clock.\u003cbr\u003e\nÒNow they are all on their knees,Ó\u003cbr\u003e\nAn elder said as we sat in a flock\u003cbr\u003e\nBy the embers in hearthside ease.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWe pictured the meek mild creatures where\u003cbr\u003e\nThey dwelt in their strawy pen,\u003cbr\u003e\nNor did it occur to one of us there\u003cbr\u003e\nTo doubt they were kneeling then.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSo fair a fancy few would weave\u003cbr\u003e\nIn these years! Yet, I feel,\u003cbr\u003e\nIf someone said on Christmas Eve,\u003cbr\u003e\nÒCome; see the oxen kneel,\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eÒIn the lonely barton by yonder coomb\u003cbr\u003e\nOur childhood used to know,Ó\u003cbr\u003e\nI should go with him in the gloom,\u003cbr\u003e\nHoping it might be so.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksWholesale","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44410729889953,"sku":"muss874","price":24.42,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0462\/1120\/3233\/files\/v8ry92q-front-shortedge-384.jpg?v=1717647973","url":"https:\/\/bookswholesale.myshopify.com\/products\/the-oxen","provider":"BooksWholesale","version":"1.0","type":"link"}