When Joseph Went to Bethlehem

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When Joseph Went to Bethlehem

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Bessie Saunders Spencer and I. Reed Payne, “When Joseph Went to Bethlehem,” Friend, Dec 1977, 16

1. When Joseph went to Bethlehem I think he took great care
To place his tools and close his shop and leave no shavings there.
He urged the donkey forward, then, with Mary on its back,
And carried bread and goat cheese in a little linen sack.

2. I think there at the busy inn that he was meek and mild
And awed to be the guardian of Mary’s sacred child.
Perhaps all through the chilly hours he smoothed the swaddling bands,
And Jesus felt the quiet strength of Joseph’s gentle hands.

3. And close beside the manger bed he dimmed the lantern’s light,
And held the little Jesus close upon that holy night.

Additional verses to
"When Joseph Went to Bethlehem"
by Bessie Saunders Spencer
from the December 1974 FRIEND magazine;
titled 'When Mary Went From Nazareth'.

When Mary went from Nazareth,
I think she swept her floor,
And closed the shutters tightly
And locked the painted door,

Perhaps she looked up at the hills
And said good-bye to them,
As she went down the narrow road
To far-off Bethlehem.

I think the man who kept the inn
Stood in the lantern's light
And grieved because he had no room
For Mary on that night.

And in the stable, I am sure,
The oxen's eyes were mild,
And white lambs watched her as she held
The newborn Jesus Child.

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