Comments on: Eddi’s Service https://www.timesandseasons.org/index.php/2003/12/eddis-service/ Truth Will Prevail Mon, 06 Aug 2018 17:29:28 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.8 By: Kristine https://www.timesandseasons.org/index.php/2003/12/eddis-service/#comment-12243 Mon, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 /?p=227#comment-12243 Here’s one of my favorites–a variation on the theme:

The Oxen

Christmas Eve, and twelve of the clock.
‘Now they are all on their knees,’ an elder said,
As we sat by the embers in hearthside ease.

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.

–Thomas Hardy

]]> By: Scott https://www.timesandseasons.org/index.php/2003/12/eddis-service/#comment-12244 Mon, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 /?p=227#comment-12244 Russell,

Yes, at midnight on Christmas Eve animals can talk. But those who hear them die. Milk at your peril.

Scott

]]> By: Russell Arben Fox https://www.timesandseasons.org/index.php/2003/12/eddis-service/#comment-12245 Mon, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 /?p=227#comment-12245 Scott,

Fortunately, milking time was always around 5 a.m., so I was safe.

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