Note 15 — Chapter II · CHRISTMAS POETRY (I)[8]{1}
Reading edition
“In the worthy stable of the sweet baby the angels are singing round the little one; they sing and cry out, the beloved angels, quite reverent, timid and shy round the little baby Prince of the Elect who lies naked among the prickly hay.... The Divine Verb, which is highest knowledge, this day seems as if He knew nothing of anything. Look at Him on the hay, crying and kicking as if He were not at all a divine man.”
(Translation by Vernon Lee in “Renaissance Fancies and Studies,” 34.)