The Song of Simeon, the first of the volumes of The Shepherd's Gifts, tells the Christmas story of the shepherds from the point of view of an old, embittered man who, through the birth of Jesus, regains hope and love.
Robert Griffin is a writer and composer living in New England and Switzerland. His recent works include a collection of Christmas stories called A Cradle for the Child and the chamber opera Yona. Elizabeth Auer is an artist and teacher living and working in Lyndeborough, New Hampshire, and worked as the illustrator for Robert Griffin's The Midwife of Bethlehem.
