Christmas thought

Recently I heard this Scottish prayer set beautifully to music by Alfred Burt.

I saw a stranger yest're'een;

I put food in the eating place,

Drink in the drinking place,

Music in the listening place;

And in the name of the Triune

He blessed myself and my house,

My cattle and my dear ones;

And the lark said in her song:

Oft, Oft, Oft,

Goes the Christ in the stranger's guise.

Oft, Oft, Oft,

Goes the Christ in the stranger's guise