
The Beasts of Bethlehem
By X.J. Kennedy
1992
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22
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In nineteen poems, the animals present at the birth of Christ speak out—a mouse prays for a truce with cats and traps, a bat vows to serve the Child by catching mosquitoes, and a hawk declares a temporary moratorium on hunting.
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