Drop down, ye heavens, from above,
	O sky distill your balmy showers,
	For now is risen the star of love
	From the rose Mary, flower of flowers:
	The clear Sun whom no cloud obscures,
	Surmounting daylight undefiled,
	Has come down from Heavenly towers
	And unto us is born a child.
~ from "Nativity" by Wm. Dunbar (1500) modern version by Wendell Berry