"The cattle are lowing,
The Baby awakes.
But the little Lord Jesus
No crying he makes."
Once I read the quote above everything started to make sense. I remember this quatrain from the beginning of the book. Vonnegut had used this piece from a song to relate to Billy. "No crying he makes," related to Billy Pilgrim, because he rarely cried no matter how harsh the conditions were. Vonnegut directly stated that this quatrain was the epigraph of the entire book. Relating much of the story to this carol, Vonnegut was able to create a character that thousands of people could relate to Christ.
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