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If you are not located in the United States, you -will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before -using this eBook. - -Title: Bethlehem - A Nativity Play - -Author: Laurence Housman - -Release Date: December 30, 2020 [eBook #64178] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: UTF-8 - -Produced by: Tim Lindell, David E. Brown, and the Online Distributed - Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was - produced from images generously made available by The Internet - Archive/American Libraries.) - -*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BETHLEHEM *** - - - - -BETHLEHEM - -[Illustration] - - - - - BETHLEHEM - - A NATIVITY PLAY - BY LAURENCE HOUSMAN - PERFORMED WITH MUSIC - BY JOSEPH MOORAT UNDER - THE STAGE-DIRECTION OF - EDWARD GORDON CRAIG - DECEMBER MCMII - - - LONDON - MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED - NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY - 1902 - - - _All rights reserved_ - - - - -ACT I. - - - _CHORUS enters and speaks before the curtain._ - - Ye Gentles, that come here to watch our play, - Put, we beseech you, thought of us away! - No standing here have we: in heart we kneel, - With, at our hearts, this prayer,--that ye may feel - How in Love’s hands time is a little thing! - And so shall Love to-night your senses bring - Back to the hills of Bethlehem, the fold - Where shepherds watched their sheep, where angels told - Of peace, goodwill to men, in Christ new-born, - By Whom, from Virgin Birth, our flesh goes worn. - Also, if we may guide you, ye shall see - The manger where in great humility - Lieth that Babe, the Maker of us all, - By Mary’s side, amid the beasts in stall. - And ye shall see the coming of the Kings, - Led by a star; and Gabriel that brings - Unto St. Joseph, in a dream by night, - Word of King Herod’s fear, and counsels flight. - So, lastly, ye shall see them rise and go, - And the place vacant left. Yet ye shall know - That Love remains, and that Faith sees it so. - So, have ye hope! let Time your trust increase! - Hark, I hear music! Christmas comes; ’tis peace! - - _Pastoral music: a shepherd’s voice is heard._ - - ‘The world is old, to-night, - The world is old; - The stars around the fold - Do show their light, do show their light. - And so they did, and so, - A thousand years ago, - And so will do, dear love, when you lie cold.’ - - [_The curtain opens._ - - YOUNG SHEPHERD (_sings_). - - The world is still, to-night, - The world is still; - The snow on vale and hill - Like wool lies white, like wool lies white. - And so it was, and so, - A thousand years ago, - And so will be, good lads, when we lack will. - - WATCHER. - - Ay-oh, ay-oh, ay-oh! - - 1ST SHEPHERD. - - There be good fairies up in air to-night: - Come ere a frost so mild with stars so bright? - The wind has shut itself in-door again, - And all the air be saft like a’ter rain. - - WATCHER. - - Ay-oh, ay-oh, ay-oh! - - 2ND SHEPHERD (_rising_). - - The sheep be quiet; the dogs have nought to do; - The lambs come kind; there haven’t been a ewe - Lost, nor a still one born, this moon, there an’t: - A thing I can’t remember, nor I can’t, - Since I’ve been shepherd:--that’s nigh forty year. - - 3RD SHEPHERD. - - Well, well! - - 4TH SHEPHERD. - - What star be that’n out yonder there? - It’s been a-coming on, night a’ter night, - This long time back, but never looked so bright - As ’a do now. - - WATCHER. - - Ay-oh, ay-oh, ay-oh! - - 4TH SHEPHERD. - - D’you think stars have a way - Of coming out like, special, when they got summut to say? - I’ve often wondered how it is they are: - You never seem to get no nearer to a star,-- - Walk a’ter ’em a mile they still seem just as far. - - 3RD SHEPHERD. - - ’Tis as God made ’em. Like as they were geese, - Go a’ter ’em, and they turns tail and flees; - Then you go back, and back they come at you! - So as God made ’em’s what they got to do. - - 1ST SHEPHERD. - - Aye, I don’t doubt the stars lays facts to mind: - There’s them as say men’s names be marked and signed,-- - Writ in the roof up there, for proof that God’s behind. - - WATCHER. - - Ay-oh, ay-oh, ay-oh! - - 5TH SHEPHERD. - - You think a star knows what it’s all about, - A-blazing for? - - 1ST SHEPHERD. - - I haven’t got a doubt - He does! That star--now, don’t tell me no more - You think he don’t know what he’s shining for! - Look at him jerking and working, and a-winking and a-blinking;-- - Well,--that’s him thinking. - - 3RD SHEPHERD. - - Well, if he thinks the things God sets him to, - Like we poor men, he got enough to do! - - WATCHER. - - Ay-oh, ay-oh, ay-oh! - - 4TH SHEPHERD. - - There’s old blind Abe a-looking! Don’t he seem - As if he saw it? - - 2ND SHEPHERD. - - Aye! he likes to dream - He’s won his sight back, tho’ it’s been twelve year gone. - Abe, what d’you think you’ve got your eye upon? - - ABEL. - - A good sight! aye, and a sight as you can’t see - So well as I. The thought just come to me, - While all of you sat talking by my side, - Like to the word the prophet prophesied;-- - And while you talked, the thought o’ it kep’ me dumb:-- - Shiloh, thinks I,--will I see Shiloh come? - And all at once these words were in my head,-- - What he,--the man whose eyes were open--said - Aforetime, ‘I shall see him;--but not now!’ - Says he, ‘I shall behold him;--but not nigh: - ‘Out of Jacob there shall come forth a Star, - ‘And a Sceptre in Israel shall be raised high.’-- - So he bare witness of things seen afar. - And that being told so many years ago, - Yet still to come, do surely seem to show - How we be likelier to behold that Star - Than he who only spoke o’ it from afar. - And in that day, ’tis told, the dumb shall talk, - The old shall leap, and the lame man shall walk, - And the blind man recover back his sight! - - 3RD SHEPHERD. - - Well, well, it may be so! God will do right. - - 1ST SHEPHERD. - - May we be there to see when that day shows: - What it can do for such as we--God knows! - - WATCHER. - - Ay-oh!... - - 1ST SHEPHERD. - - Why! who be yon fine gentleman in white - Stepping across the sheepfolds to the right? - - 4TH SHEPHERD. - - How comes it that his face be lit so bright? - - 3RD SHEPHERD. - - The blood pricks in my thumbs; - ’Tis like a ghost he comes! - - _Enter GABRIEL._ - - GABRIEL. - - Let nothing you annoy! - Behold, I bring - Good tidings of great joy: - To you a King - This day is born, to you and all mankind. - Even Christ the Lord, to man’s estate resigned. - - 3RD SHEPHERD. - - O Lord, O Lord! was ever the like heard tell! - - ABEL. - - Hold ye your peace, neighbours! he speaks us well. - - GABRIEL. - - And of that same - Let this be for a sign: - In Bethlehem, - Cradled amid the kine, - A Babe in swaddling-bands ye there shall find. - - 4TH SHEPHERD. - - Have you no fear? oh, Abel, but you’re blind! - - ABEL. - - Peace, and give ear! New light shines in my mind. - - GABRIEL. - - And as a shepherd he shall feed - His flocks, and in his arms shall bear - The lambs, and like a father fair - The ewes with young shall lead. - - _Enter ANGELS._ - - ANGELS. - - SEMI-CHORUS. SEMI-CHORUS. - - Glory to God In the Highest! - Who unto man Now comes nighest. - Peace be to earth! Goodwill to all! - Christ the new Birth Redeems man’s fall. - - GABRIEL. - - Ye holy and humble men of fearful heart, - Be not afraid with these to take your part! - To-night God gives you sight; then be not blind; - Behold with us the high celestial mind! - Ye also with one voice must here rejoice. - - 1ST SHEPHERD. - - We be poor mortals! Here’s all Heaven in sight! - - GABRIEL. - - The Heavens themselves are joined with earth to-night. - Fear not, but rise! Mercy and Truth are met; - And Righteousness on Peace her seal hath set. - Stand and be strong, - Ye, too, shall share our song! - - SEMI-CHORUS. - - Glory to God; on earth, peace, goodwill! - He smites with His rod, and the waters are still; - He maketh it bud for the evil and good, - He lifts the low valley and bends the high hill. - - SEMI-CHORUS. - - Thou Christ art the Rod, and Thy reign shall be peace! - At the power of Thy nod, all warfare shall cease. - The desert shall blossom and be as the rose, - When the Healing of nations from Bethlehem flows. - - CHORUS. - - Glory to God In the Highest! - Who unto man Now comes nighest. - Peace be to earth! Goodwill to all! - Christ the new Birth Redeems man’s fall. - - [_The ANGELS disappear._ - 4TH SHEPHERD. - - Sir, have we dreamed this? - - GABRIEL. - - Let your own hearts tell! - Do dreams bequeath such joy? Your bosoms swell, - Your faces glow, your eyes are full of cheer. - Why are they so? Lately you had great fear, - And stood as huddled flocks before a storm; - Have dreams, then, made you warm? - - 4TH SHEPHERD. - - Oh, Sir, ’tis true! - Yet scarcely do I know what next to do. - - 2ND SHEPHERD. - - You come wi’ me, lad! come along o’ me, - We’ll all be off to Bethlehem, and see - What they be doing there! Lord, Lord, I doubt - Whether I’ll know to find me way about - With such high things a-happening! - Sir, you see - There ain’t much show about the likes o’ we, - But what I say’s--if this be true--well, well, - ’Tis the best news that ever I heard tell! - - 1ST SHEPHERD. - - And the best fortune any on us has had! - Lord, though, but don’t it make an old heart glad! - Christ born? You say it is so, Sir? So be it! - Thank God as we should be alive to see it! - - ABEL. - - Be He at Bethlehem? - - GABRIEL. - - Aye, there go ye! - While ye so fare, your folds shall guarded be; - Round them even now stand those ye do not see. - Go ye in peace! - - SHEPHERDS. - - We thank you kindly, Sir. - - SHEPHERDS (_sing_). - - Now we will go, now we will go, - The way we know to Bethlehem; - That they may show, and we may know, - ’Tis even so as you proclaim. - - And we will take the bread we bake, - The wine we make, as gifts to them; - And milk and cheese; and on our knees - Will offer these at Bethlehem. - - And He shall know we love Him so, - But cannot show a better way - Of service dear, and loving cheer, - Than we do here on Christmas Day. - - [_Exeunt several of the SHEPHERDS._ - - 6TH SHEPHERD. - - Sir, do you think that I might make so bold - As offer Him a young lamb from the fold? - ’Twas the first dropped this lambing time; maybe - He’ll take it kindly from the likes o’ we, - We being simple shepherds. - - GABRIEL. - - Simple? Yes! - Would God, all minds had this same simpleness! - Take Him what gifts ye will! To-night on earth - All’s peace to greet Christ’s birth. - - 5TH SHEPHERD. - - Noticed you that? - He made the shepherd’s sign: ’a did it pat! - - SHEPHERDS (_without_). - - Come on, lads, come! - - 6TH SHEPHERD. - - Good-night, Sir. - - GABRIEL. - - Peace befall - You and your ways! Good-night, friend; good-night, all. - - [_Exeunt SHEPHERDS._ - - SHEPHERDS (_in the distance singing_). - - And we will go, and we will go, - The way we know to Bethlehem; - That Love may show, and we may know, - ’Tis even so as you proclaim. - - _Enter the ANGEL OF THE STAR. He crosses the stage and departs._ - - _Enter the KINGS._ - - 1ST KING. - - Hear me, O King of Kings, - And give me my desire! - - 2ND KING. - - Hive me beneath Thy wings, - And guide my feet with fire! - - 3RD KING. - - Unto that Holy Mount, - Where forth from Thee goes Light. - - ALL. - - Whence springs a Living Fount - To wash the whole world white. - - GABRIEL. - - Peace be with you, and hail! - Where go ye this fair night, - Travellers, and what seek ye? - - 1ST KING. - - We seek from the hill the vale, - And from the vale the hill. - - 2ND KING. - - From the ends of the morning, rest; - And from the East the West. - - 3RD KING. - - In the darkness we seek fire, - And out of dreams the heart’s desire! - And, if to-day we fail, - To-morrow we seek it still. - - GABRIEL. - - Are ye not weary, seeking so? - Are ye not laden with care? - - 1ST KING. - - We are not weary. If our feet be slow, - ’Tis with the burden of the Love we bear. - It is our longing for the Light we seek - Which makes us weak. - - GABRIEL. - - What is the longing of each one? - - 3RD KING. - - Melchior, wilt thou first speak? - - 2ND KING. - - Too slow my footsteps move - For the goal I seek to prove. - My body is a waste, - Through which my soul doth haste, - Famished until it taste - Its nameless new desire! - A flame my spirit owns, - Ashes are all my bones, - Love lights in me such fire! - I thirst! my throat is dried! - I ask;--am still denied! - Cry to be satisfied: - Yet only as Love will. - Now, if He come not first, - Not death, but ease were worst;-- - Let me die, thirsting still! - - GABRIEL. - - And you? - - 3RD KING. - - I have such Love! - Beauty, I know not of, - Hath laid on me the vision of its Light. - When that Light shines, earth’s ends - Therein shall all be friends: - They shall not hurt nor kill, but on the height - Named Holy shall be peace. - Then shall all warfare cease, - And every king his crown - Shall at the cradle of a new-born Babe lay down. - - GABRIEL. - - And thou, that standest last, - Say what desire thou hast? - - 1ST KING. - - For Earth’s waiting to be done; - For God to send forth His Son, - Godhead and man made one! - That creation, wrought afresh, - May be finished and made whole; - That the Word may become Flesh, - And Earth receive her soul! - Pray we for this, - Seeing well how good it is. - - GABRIEL. - - Behold, this night shall bring you to your bliss. - - 3RD KING. - - Whence comes thy knowledge to make hope so near? - - GABRIEL. - - Oh, let your ears be opened till they hear! - Open your eyes, and mark with fearless sight - The throng of thanksgiving which fills this night: - Nor walks on heaven alone, but earth as well! - Sound in sweet tone, celestial Choirs, and tell! - - ANGELS (_appearing_). - - Glory to God In the Highest! - Who unto man Now comes nighest. - Peace be to earth! Goodwill to all! - Christ the new Birth Redeems man’s fall. - - 1ST KING. - - Oh, ye blest sounds, be as the air we breathe! - - 2ND KING. - - Oh, fair things seen, your light to us bequeath! - - 3RD KING. - - And if there be an ending to our quest, - Show, now, where lies our rest! - - GABRIEL. - - O Kings, your quest is ended now, earth joins - To greet her Lord, in Heaven’s exultant strains. - Righteousness is the girdle of His loins, - And faithfulness the girdle of His reins. - The Spirit of God shall rest on Him, of might, - Of wisdom, and of counsel, and of fear: - He shall not judge according unto sight, - Neither reprove by the hearing of His ear: - But by His righteousness shall He do right, - And with His equity the meek repay; - Out of His mouth a rod the earth shall smite, - And by His breath the wicked He shall slay. - The wolf shall make his dwelling in the fold, - The leopard and the kid together play, - The young lion with the fatling: and behold - A Little Child shall lead them in the way! - Then like the ox the lion shall eat straw, - The calf and the young bear be in one pen; - The suckling from his hole the asp shall draw, - And the weaned child play by the adder’s den. - They shall not hurt in all my Holy Hill, - Nor shall there any more destruction be: - The knowledge of the Lord the earth shall fill, - Even as the water covereth the sea. - And He shall raise His people from their sin. - This is the way of Life: walk ye therein! - - 1ST KING. - - Where shall we find Him? where throw off our load? - - GABRIEL. - - In Bethlehem Peace makes His fair abode. - Yonder His star still lights you to your road. - - [_Exeunt the KINGS._ - - - - -ACT II. - - - _The inn-stable at Bethlehem. Without, voices are heard singing._ - - ‘Noel, Noel, Noel,’ - Sang the church bell; - ‘God’s in His Heaven, - This know well!’ - - Noel, Noel, Noel, - Ding-dong-bell, - God from High Heaven - Comes on earth to dwell. - - ‘Noel, Noel, Noel,’ - Bells ring on earth, - ‘Come and know well - This bright Birth!’ - - JOSEPH. - - Sleepest thou, Mary? - - MARY. - - I sleep not; I pray. - Behold, on me my Lord His Head doth lay. - Look how in sleep He takes a mortal’s rest: - See where His Hand is laid upon my breast! - - JOSEPH. - - Mary, I dread to see! - - MARY. - - Nay, come more near; - But wake Him not! - - JOSEPH. - - Alas! I have such fear. - - MARY. - - I, too: my soul is glad through very dread - While in this chamber God doth make His bed: - For now our eyes behold the glorious Birth - Which shall uplift again low-fallen earth. - Here, where He rests, amid these hollowed rocks, - I hear the world’s heart move in joyful shocks,-- - The pulsing of her rivers and her springs: - I feel the air beat with the throb of wings: - And farther up, amid the heavenly maze, - The stars and planets with adoring gaze - Look down and say, ‘O maid with favour stored, - How com’st thou to be Mother of our Lord?’ - What can I answer, I? Let Gabriel - Speak to those heavenly questioners, and tell - How by the Holy Ghost this came to be; - How power from the Highest o’ershadowed me, - Till in my heart God came Himself to lie, - Perfect fulfilment of all prophecy. - Naught may I know save this: His handmaid I. - - VOICES. - - ‘Ave Maria, gratia plena, Dominus tecum! Benedicta tu in mulieribus, - et Benedictus Fructus ventris tui, Jesus.’ - - [_A knocking is heard._ - - JOSEPH. - - Who knocks? - - SHEPHERD (_without_). - - A friend: we be all friendly men: - We be the shepherds. - - JOSEPH. - - Come in, shepherds, then: - Here’s welcome waiting you! Behold and bless - The Peace within your gates, the Plenteousness! - - _The SHEPHERDS enter._ - - 1ST SHEPHERD. - - Mother of God, welcome to Bethlehem! - - MARY. - - Shepherds of Israel, welcome to Christ’s Birth! - - OMNES. - - Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee! Blessed art thou - among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, - Mother of God, pray for us sinners now, and in the hour of our death. - Amen. - - MARY. - - Behold the handmaid of the Lord! - So as His Word hath His Way been; - Now Earth to Heaven doth room afford; - The Godhead veiled in Flesh is seen. - Come and adore, in form of man, - The Word that was ere worlds began! - - OMNES. - - Mother Mary, hail! - And of thy Grace, - Lift away the veil - That hides God’s face! - - Here God lies - For a short space. - Mary, Mother wise, - Show us God’s face! - - Mary, all the lands, - Mary, all the seas, - Gather in thy hands - To thy dear knees! - - Mary, maiden white, - Mother, pure within, - Show to mortal sight - Love that cures sin! - - 1ST SHEPHERD. - - Mother Mary, may we see God? - - MARY. - - Stand near in faith, behold, - Be comforted by Him! - Here, shepherds, is your fold. - - ABEL. - - Lady, I cannot see: mine eyes are dim. - - MARY. - - Come near, in faith: come near! - Thou shalt win sight. - Doubt not: have thou no fear! - - ABEL. - - Lady, mine eyes be healed and full of light! - - MARY. - - Even so, even so, - Let Earth perceive and know! - - 1ST SHEPHERD. - - Son of God, shine on us! - - 2ND SHEPHERD. - - Lamb of God, look on us! - - 3RD SHEPHERD. - - Shepherd of men, set Thy sign on us! - - 4TH SHEPHERD. - - And lay Thy yoke on us! - - 5TH SHEPHERD. - - And we will be thankful. - - 1ST SHEPHERD (_kneeling_). - - Queen, Mother, pardon me who make so bold - To speak! but hearts grown full be hard to hold - To-night, as Heaven hath willed, have come thy way - Poor folk with meagre speech yet much to say. - So, if word lack, let thine own wisdom fill: - And--give me countenance!--I’ll not speak ill. - Dear Mother, pray for us! Foolish we be, - Untaught and rude: but what we see we see, - And what we hear we hear; to what’s above - Our heads we bow: and what we love we love! - And, loving thee since our first entrance in, - Do thereby more love God, and more hate sin; - And of all lips would have thy lips to pray - Pardon for us and peace to seek His way. - Fair Mother, we have old men here among, - As thou may’st see; and thou, we see, art young: - Yet the name ‘Mother’ runneth to the tongue - That seeks a name for thee. May we not all - Thee as our Lady and our Mother call, - For thy Son’s sake? - - MARY. - - Amen. So, shepherds, do! - Call as Love bids you, and I’ll answer you. - - 1ST SHEPHERD. - - Mother, I have laid bread here at thy feet. - For thy Son’s sake, I pray thee take and eat! - - 2ND SHEPHERD. - - Mother, I bring thee milk. - - 3RD SHEPHERD. - - I bring thee cheese. - - 4TH SHEPHERD. - - I have brought nuts. Strengthen His teeth on these, - When they begin to pair. - - 5TH SHEPHERD. - - Also here’s wine, - Good for a festal, or when frost bites fine. - Also my cloak is thine. - - 6TH SHEPHERD. - - Dear Mother, for God’s sake, - Wilt thou, I prithee, take - This firstling from the fold? - It is so beautiful, - And thereto hath warm wool - To ward one from the cold. - Take it, then, to thy lap - Beside thy Son: - It may keep warm, mayhap, - The Blessed One. - - MARY. - - It shall keep warm my heart, shepherd, to thee. - - 7TH SHEPHERD. - - Mother, my empty hands do me a wrong: - No gift have I, but in my lips a song - Such as we shepherds sing. - - MARY. - - Such songs are best. - To-night your lips shall lull the Shepherd’s King - To rest. - - 7TH SHEPHERD (_sings_). - - The world is old to-night, - The world is old; - The stars around the fold - Do show their light. - And so they did, and so, - A thousand years ago, - And so will do, dear Love, when you lie cold. - (_Speaks._) Nay, nay, but I can sing no more thereof; - I had forgot the sadness of the end! - - MARY. - - Thou hast but prophesied how men shall scoff - Even at Love, my friend. - - [_Knocking is heard._ - JOSEPH. - - Ho, there without! Who knocks? Come ye in peace? - - KINGS (_without_). - - Kings, seeking it, we come! - - JOSEPH. - - Here enter, and find ease! - - - _THE KINGS enter._ - - 1ST KING. - - Blessed be God! - - OMNES. - - Blessed be God! - - 2ND KING. - - Blessed be His Holy Name! - - OMNES. - - Blessed be His Holy Name! - - 3RD KING. - - Blessed be Jesus Christ, true God and true Man! - - OMNES. - - Blessed be Jesus Christ, true God and true Man! - - 1ST KING. - - Oh, finished quest! - Oh, rest! - - 2ND KING. - - Oh, Fount, that first - Of all hath satisfied my thirst! - - 3RD KING. - - Oh, Light, - That brings me sight! - - 1ST KING. - - Thou Birth Divine, - Behold, - The earthly sign - Of power and kingship, gold, - Here in my hands I hold, - And offer, to be Thine. - - 2ND KING. - - This frankincense - Let be - A symbol, whence - All men may learn to see - How veiled a mystery - Defeats man’s sense where Godhead deigns to be. - - 3RD KING. - - Oh, Comforter of souls, - I bring Thee myrrh. - When grief my heart controls - And darkness round me rolls, - Sweet Saviour, be Thou near! - - THE THREE KINGS. - - Thanksgiving, Praise, and Prayer, - Three offerings meet, - We lay in equal share - Before Christ’s feet. - - MARY. - - Your welcome gifts, - Proffered in love, from Earth to Heaven He lifts. - - THE KINGS. - - Now see we Love on Earth His throne! - All we have known, - Or hoped to gain, - Was this alone-- - That He might reign! - - OMNES. - - That He might reign! - Oh, welcome Birth! let all adore - The Christ made Man for evermore. - - THE SHEPHERDS. - - ’Tis Christmas morn: - Come ye, and bow the knee - Lo, here we see - The perfect Man is born. - - CHORUS. - - (_in alternate parts, KINGS and SHEPHERDS_). - - For this fair Birth - (Which now we see!) - Shows forth God’s worth, - (Then sing we merrily!) - And makes glad earth, - And brings man mirth, - (So sing we merrily this fair Birth!) - - THE KINGS. - - ’Tis Christmas Day: - Oh pray,--put off your sins! - This day begins - For man the perfect way. - - CHORUS (_as before_). - - For this fair Birth, etc. - - [_During this song the Attendants of the KINGS have entered._ - - OMNES. - - Mother Mary, give us thy Son’s Blessing! - - (_They sing._) Mary, Gate of Day, - Lend thine intercession! - Holy Mother Mary, - Pray for my transgression! - - Ere He yet touched Earth, - He did first touch thee; - Through thy perfect worth - God reached down for me. - - MARY. - - The word expressed - In Flesh hath come; - Against my breast - The Voice lies dumb, - That shall be of all prophecies the sum. - - Oh, Thou dread Voice - Of Heaven’s decree, - Who madest choice - To dwell with me, - Now through my lips, this once, let utterance be! - - My Peace I leave, - My Peace I give: - All that receive - The same shall live; - And tribute hearts win joy retributive. - - The Cup I bless, - The Bread I break, - Is Righteousness! - Draw near and take! - Eat, drink, and hold remembrance for Love’s sake! - - The peace of Peace, - Outpassing sense, - Give your mind’s ease - When ye go hence. - Love, peace, and pardon be your recompense! - - OMNES. - - Hail, Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee! Blessed art thou - among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, - Mother of God, pray for us sinners now, and in the hour of our death. - Amen. - - MARY. - - Kings from far countries have ye come to see - A King Whose reign shall make all kingdoms free. - Low at His feet your crowns ye cast to ground; - From this day forward ye shall go more crowned; - For, named hereafter, ye shall be named wise, - Seeing that in Heaven ye watched Christ’s star arise. - Great kings ye came, but much more great ye go, - Who to His state have bowed yourselves so low. - And you, dear Shepherds, to your settled folds - Return, and father your sweet flocks to rest! - Though Heavenly signs depart, Heaven’s purpose holds, - Where Earth’s Redemption slumbers at my breast. - Look where He lies! Kiss ye His feet, and go! - Your Shepherd He: Whose sheep are ye, I know. - - When mothers teach to babes their mother-tongue, - This tale shall first be told: - How to His birth ye came in days of old, - While starlight led and seraph-voices sung. - So, in that story, shall your names stay young. - Farewell; give thanks for this! Ye to Christ’s fold - Are come. Take all the bliss that hearts on earth may hold! - - [_Exeunt KINGS, SHEPHERDS, and ATTENDANTS._ - - SHEPHERDS AND KINGS (_without_). - - I heard on Christmas night - The loud bells ringing: - ‘New Life and Light - Christ comes bringing!’ - - _Chorus._ - - Oh, that is true, is true, - And better could not be! - So God bless you! - And God bless me! - - I heard on Christmas night - The glad news pealing: - ‘Christ to human sight - Now gives healing!’ - - Oh, that is true, is true, - And better could not be! - So God bless you! - And God bless me! - - I heard on Christmas night - The high Heavens telling: - ‘Christ who left His height, - On earth finds dwelling!’ - - Oh, that is true, is true, - And better could not be! - So God bless you! - And God bless me! - - From Mary, Queen of Might, - Comes down sweet saying: - ‘I hear, on Christmas night, - All poor hearts praying!’ - - Oh, that is true, is true, - And better could not be! - So God bless you! - And God bless me! - - _Enter GABRIEL._ - - GABRIEL. - - Servant of God, sleep not, awake! - Saddle the ass ere dawn of day; - The Mother, and the young Child take, - Whom Herod seeketh now to slay; - Get thee hence ere the wakening bird - Hath sung; to Egypt win thy way: - There, till I come and bring thee word, - Shalt thou in hiding stay. - As thou hast heard, make haste, obey! - - [_Exit._ - JOSEPH. - - Mary, arise; hence must we go, - Even before the dawn of day. - - MARY. - - It is God’s will? - - JOSEPH. - - ’Tis even so: - His angel’s word. - - MARY. - - Which we obey. - - [_Exeunt._ - VOICES OF CAROL-SINGERS (_without_). - - God rest you, merry gentlemen, - Let nothing you dismay! - Because that Jesus Christ our Lord - Is born on Christmas Day! - - - [CURTAIN.] - - - _Enter CHORUS._ - - _Chorus._ Oh Maid and Holy Child, where have ye gone? - Lost are the voices, sets the Star that shone: - Back to their folds have gone the shepherd-band: - Each king is now returned to his own land. - Love is gone forth into the world to win - Saints to their rest, and sinners back from sin. - Gentles, O ye that here have watched our play, - Tell me, I pray you, did He pass _your_ way? - Say have ye Him safe, each one, in his breast? - Oh, hold Him well! 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Brown, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)</div> - -<div style='margin-top:2em; margin-bottom:4em'>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BETHLEHEM ***</div> - -<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/cover.jpg" width="40%" alt="" /></div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<h1>BETHLEHEM</h1> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/i_colophon.jpg" alt="" /></div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/i_title.jpg" alt="" /></div> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<div class="titlepage"> -<p><span class="xlarge">BETHLEHEM</span></p> - -<p><span class="large">A NATIVITY PLAY</span><br /> -BY LAURENCE HOUSMAN<br /> -PERFORMED WITH MUSIC<br /> -BY JOSEPH MOORAT UNDER<br /> -THE STAGE-DIRECTION OF<br /> -EDWARD GORDON CRAIG<br /> -DECEMBER MCMII</p> - -<p>LONDON<br /> -MACMILLAN AND CO., <span class="smcap">Limited</span><br /> -NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY<br /> -1902</p> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="chapter"> - -<p class="center"><i>All rights reserved</i></p> -</div> - - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_5"></a>[5]</span> -<h2 class="nobreak">ACT I.</h2> -</div> - - -<p class="center"><span class="smcap">Chorus</span> <i>enters and speaks before the curtain</i>.</p> - - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse"><span class="smcap">Ye</span> Gentles, that come here to watch our play,</div> -<div class="verse">Put, we beseech you, thought of us away!</div> -<div class="verse">No standing here have we: in heart we kneel,</div> -<div class="verse">With, at our hearts, this prayer,—that ye may feel</div> -<div class="verse">How in Love’s hands time is a little thing!</div> -<div class="verse">And so shall Love to-night your senses bring</div> -<div class="verse">Back to the hills of Bethlehem, the fold</div> -<div class="verse">Where shepherds watched their sheep, where angels told</div> -<div class="verse">Of peace, goodwill to men, in Christ new-born,</div> -<div class="verse">By Whom, from Virgin Birth, our flesh goes worn.</div> -<div class="verse">Also, if we may guide you, ye shall see</div> -<div class="verse">The manger where in great humility</div> -<div class="verse">Lieth that Babe, the Maker of us all,</div> -<div class="verse">By Mary’s side, amid the beasts in stall.</div> -<div class="verse">And ye shall see the coming of the Kings,</div> -<div class="verse">Led by a star; and Gabriel that brings</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_6"></a>[6]</span> -<div class="verse">Unto St. Joseph, in a dream by night,</div> -<div class="verse">Word of King Herod’s fear, and counsels flight.</div> -<div class="verse">So, lastly, ye shall see them rise and go,</div> -<div class="verse">And the place vacant left. Yet ye shall know</div> -<div class="verse">That Love remains, and that Faith sees it so.</div> -<div class="verse">So, have ye hope! let Time your trust increase!</div> -<div class="verse">Hark, I hear music! Christmas comes; ’tis peace!</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="center"><i>Pastoral music: a shepherd’s voice is heard.</i></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="indent2a">‘The world is old, to-night,</div> -<div class="indent3">The world is old;</div> -<div class="indent2">The stars around the fold</div> -<div class="indent3">Do show their light, do show their light.</div> -<div class="indent2">And so they did, and so,</div> -<div class="indent2">A thousand years ago,</div> -<div class="indent">And so will do, dear love, when you lie cold.’</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="right">[<i>The curtain opens.</i></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">Young Shepherd</span> (<i>sings</i>).</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="indent2">The world is still, to-night,</div> -<div class="indent3">The world is still;</div> -<div class="indent2">The snow on vale and hill</div> -<div class="indent3">Like wool lies white, like wool lies white.</div> -<div class="indent2">And so it was, and so,</div> -<div class="indent2">A thousand years ago,</div> -<div class="indent">And so will be, good lads, when we lack will.</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_7"></a>[7]</span> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">Watcher.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">Ay-oh, ay-oh, ay-oh!</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">1st Shepherd.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">There be good fairies up in air to-night:</div> -<div class="verse">Come ere a frost so mild with stars so bright?</div> -<div class="verse">The wind has shut itself in-door again,</div> -<div class="verse">And all the air be saft like a’ter rain.</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">Watcher.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">Ay-oh, ay-oh, ay-oh!</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">2nd Shepherd</span> (<i>rising</i>).</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">The sheep be quiet; the dogs have nought to do;</div> -<div class="verse">The lambs come kind; there haven’t been a ewe</div> -<div class="verse">Lost, nor a still one born, this moon, there an’t:</div> -<div class="verse">A thing I can’t remember, nor I can’t,</div> -<div class="verse">Since I’ve been shepherd:—that’s nigh forty year.</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">3rd Shepherd.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">Well, well!</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">4th Shepherd.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="indent6">What star be that’n out yonder there?</div> -<div class="verse">It’s been a-coming on, night a’ter night,</div> -<div class="verse">This long time back, but never looked so bright</div> -<div class="verse">As ’a do now. -</div> -<div class="stanza"><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_8"></a>[8]</span></div> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">Watcher.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">Ay-oh, ay-oh, ay-oh!</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">4th Shepherd.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="indent10">D’you think stars have a way</div> -<div class="verse">Of coming out like, special, when they got summut to say?</div> -<div class="verse">I’ve often wondered how it is they are:</div> -<div class="verse">You never seem to get no nearer to a star,—</div> -<div class="verse">Walk a’ter ’em a mile they still seem just as far.</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">3rd Shepherd.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">’Tis as God made ’em. Like as they were geese,</div> -<div class="verse">Go a’ter ’em, and they turns tail and flees;</div> -<div class="verse">Then you go back, and back they come at you!</div> -<div class="verse">So as God made ’em’s what they got to do.</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">1st Shepherd.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">Aye, I don’t doubt the stars lays facts to mind:</div> -<div class="verse">There’s them as say men’s names be marked and signed,—</div> -<div class="verse">Writ in the roof up there, for proof that God’s behind.</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_9"></a>[9]</span> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">Watcher.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">Ay-oh, ay-oh, ay-oh!</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">5th Shepherd.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">You think a star knows what it’s all about,</div> -<div class="verse">A-blazing for?</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">1st Shepherd.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="indent8">I haven’t got a doubt</div> -<div class="verse">He does! That star—now, don’t tell me no more</div> -<div class="verse">You think he don’t know what he’s shining for!</div> -<div class="verse">Look at him jerking and working, and a-winking and a-blinking;—</div> -<div class="verse">Well,—that’s him thinking.</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">3rd Shepherd.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">Well, if he thinks the things God sets him to,</div> -<div class="verse">Like we poor men, he got enough to do!</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">Watcher.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">Ay-oh, ay-oh, ay-oh!</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">4th Shepherd.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">There’s old blind Abe a-looking! Don’t he seem</div> -<div class="verse">As if he saw it?</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">2nd Shepherd.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="indent8">Aye! he likes to dream</div> -<div class="verse">He’s won his sight back, tho’ it’s been twelve year gone.</div> -<div class="verse">Abe, what d’you think you’ve got your eye upon?</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_10"></a>[10]</span> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">Abel.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">A good sight! aye, and a sight as you can’t see</div> -<div class="verse">So well as I. The thought just come to me,</div> -<div class="verse">While all of you sat talking by my side,</div> -<div class="verse">Like to the word the prophet prophesied;—</div> -<div class="verse">And while you talked, the thought o’ it kep’ me dumb:—</div> -<div class="verse">Shiloh, thinks I,—will I see Shiloh come?</div> -<div class="verse">And all at once these words were in my head,—</div> -<div class="verse">What he,—the man whose eyes were open—said</div> -<div class="verse">Aforetime, ‘I shall see him;—but not now!’</div> -<div class="verse">Says he, ‘I shall behold him;—but not nigh:</div> -<div class="verse">‘Out of Jacob there shall come forth a Star,</div> -<div class="verse">‘And a Sceptre in Israel shall be raised high.’—</div> -<div class="verse">So he bare witness of things seen afar.</div> -<div class="verse">And that being told so many years ago,</div> -<div class="verse">Yet still to come, do surely seem to show</div> -<div class="verse">How we be likelier to behold that Star</div> -<div class="verse">Than he who only spoke o’ it from afar.</div> -<div class="verse">And in that day, ’tis told, the dumb shall talk,</div> -<div class="verse">The old shall leap, and the lame man shall walk,</div> -<div class="verse">And the blind man recover back his sight!</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">3rd Shepherd.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">Well, well, it may be so! God will do right.</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_11"></a>[11]</span> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">1st Shepherd.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">May we be there to see when that day shows:</div> -<div class="verse">What it can do for such as we—God knows!</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">Watcher.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">Ay-oh!...</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">1st Shepherd.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">Why! who be yon fine gentleman in white</div> -<div class="verse">Stepping across the sheepfolds to the right?</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">4th Shepherd.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">How comes it that his face be lit so bright?</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">3rd Shepherd.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">The blood pricks in my thumbs;</div> -<div class="verse">’Tis like a ghost he comes!</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="center"><i>Enter</i> <span class="smcap">Gabriel</span>.</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">Gabriel.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="indent4">Let nothing you annoy!</div> -<div class="indent6">Behold, I bring</div> -<div class="indent4">Good tidings of great joy:</div> -<div class="indent6">To you a King</div> -<div class="verse">This day is born, to you and all mankind.</div> -<div class="verse">Even Christ the Lord, to man’s estate resigned.</div> -</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_12"></a>[12]</span> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">3rd Shepherd.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">O Lord, O Lord! was ever the like heard tell!</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">Abel.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">Hold ye your peace, neighbours! he speaks us well.</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">Gabriel.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="indent4">And of that same</div> -<div class="indent6">Let this be for a sign:</div> -<div class="indent4">In Bethlehem,</div> -<div class="indent6">Cradled amid the kine,</div> -<div class="verse">A Babe in swaddling-bands ye there shall find.</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">4th Shepherd.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">Have you no fear? oh, Abel, but you’re blind!</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">Abel.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">Peace, and give ear! New light shines in my mind.</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">Gabriel.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">And as a shepherd he shall feed</div> -<div class="indent2">His flocks, and in his arms shall bear</div> -<div class="indent2">The lambs, and like a father fair</div> -<div class="verse">The ewes with young shall lead.</div> -</div></div></div> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_13"></a>[13]</span></p> - -<p class="center"><i>Enter</i> <span class="smcap">Angels</span>.</p> - -<p class="center"><span class="smcap">Angels.</span></p> - -<table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2" summary="table"> - -<tr><td><span class="smcap">Semi-Chorus.</span></td><td><span class="smcap">Semi-Chorus.</span></td></tr> - -<tr><td class="tdl">Glory to God </td><td class="tdl"> In the Highest!</td></tr> -<tr><td class="tdl">Who unto man </td><td class="tdl"> Now comes nighest.</td></tr> -<tr><td class="tdl">Peace be to earth! </td><td class="tdl"> Goodwill to all!</td></tr> -<tr><td class="tdl">Christ the new Birth </td><td class="tdl"> Redeems man’s fall.</td></tr> -</table> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">Gabriel.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">Ye holy and humble men of fearful heart,</div> -<div class="verse">Be not afraid with these to take your part!</div> -<div class="verse">To-night God gives you sight; then be not blind;</div> -<div class="verse">Behold with us the high celestial mind!</div> -<div class="verse">Ye also with one voice must here rejoice.</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">1st Shepherd.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">We be poor mortals! Here’s all Heaven in sight!</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">Gabriel.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">The Heavens themselves are joined with earth to-night. </div> -<div class="verse">Fear not, but rise! Mercy and Truth are met;</div> -<div class="verse">And Righteousness on Peace her seal hath set.</div> -<div class="indent6">Stand and be strong,</div> -<div class="indent6">Ye, too, shall share our song!</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_14"></a>[14]</span> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">Semi-Chorus.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">Glory to God; on earth, peace, goodwill!</div> -<div class="verse">He smites with His rod, and the waters are still;</div> -<div class="verse">He maketh it bud for the evil and good,</div> -<div class="verse">He lifts the low valley and bends the high hill.</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">Semi-Chorus.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">Thou Christ art the Rod, and Thy reign shall be peace!</div> -<div class="verse">At the power of Thy nod, all warfare shall cease.</div> -<div class="verse">The desert shall blossom and be as the rose,</div> -<div class="verse">When the Healing of nations from Bethlehem flows.</div> -</div></div></div> - -<table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2" summary="table"> - -<tr><td class="tdc" colspan="2"><span class="smcap">Chorus.</span></td></tr> - - -<tr><td>Glory to God</td><td> In the Highest!</td></tr> -<tr><td>Who unto man</td><td> Now comes nighest.</td></tr> -<tr><td>Peace be to earth! </td><td> Goodwill to all!</td></tr> -<tr><td>Christ the new Birth </td><td> Redeems man’s fall.</td></tr> -</table> - - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="stanza"> - - -<div class="right">[<i>The</i> <span class="smcap">Angels</span> <i>disappear</i>.</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">4th Shepherd.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">Sir, have we dreamed this?</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">Gabriel.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="indent13">Let your own hearts tell! </div> -<div class="verse">Do dreams bequeath such joy? Your bosoms swell,</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_15"></a>[15]</span> -<div class="verse">Your faces glow, your eyes are full of cheer.</div> -<div class="verse">Why are they so? Lately you had great fear,</div> -<div class="verse">And stood as huddled flocks before a storm;</div> -<div class="verse">Have dreams, then, made you warm?</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">4th Shepherd.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="indent17">Oh, Sir, ’tis true!</div> -<div class="verse">Yet scarcely do I know what next to do.</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">2nd Shepherd.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">You come wi’ me, lad! come along o’ me,</div> -<div class="verse">We’ll all be off to Bethlehem, and see</div> -<div class="verse">What they be doing there! Lord, Lord, I doubt</div> -<div class="verse">Whether I’ll know to find me way about</div> -<div class="verse">With such high things a-happening!</div> -<div class="indent17">Sir, you see</div> -<div class="verse">There ain’t much show about the likes o’ we,</div> -<div class="verse">But what I say’s—if this be true—well, well,</div> -<div class="verse">’Tis the best news that ever I heard tell!</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">1st Shepherd.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">And the best fortune any on us has had!</div> -<div class="verse">Lord, though, but don’t it make an old heart glad!</div> -<div class="verse">Christ born? You say it is so, Sir? So be it!</div> -<div class="verse">Thank God as we should be alive to see it!</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_16"></a>[16]</span> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">Abel.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">Be He at Bethlehem?</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">Gabriel.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="indent12">Aye, there go ye!</div> -<div class="verse">While ye so fare, your folds shall guarded be;</div> -<div class="verse">Round them even now stand those ye do not see.</div> -<div class="verse">Go ye in peace!</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">Shepherds.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="indent8">We thank you kindly, Sir.</div> -</div></div></div> - - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">Shepherds</span> (<i>sing</i>).</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">Now we will go, now we will go,</div> -<div class="indent">The way we know to Bethlehem;</div> -<div class="verse">That they may show, and we may know,</div> -<div class="indent">’Tis even so as you proclaim.</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">And we will take the bread we bake,</div> -<div class="indent">The wine we make, as gifts to them;</div> -<div class="verse">And milk and cheese; and on our knees</div> -<div class="indent">Will offer these at Bethlehem.</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">And He shall know we love Him so,</div> -<div class="indent">But cannot show a better way</div> -<div class="verse">Of service dear, and loving cheer,</div> -<div class="indent">Than we do here on Christmas Day.</div> -</div></div></div> - - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="right">[<i>Exeunt several of the</i> <span class="smcap">Shepherds</span>.</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_17"></a>[17]</span> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">6th Shepherd.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">Sir, do you think that I might make so bold</div> -<div class="verse">As offer Him a young lamb from the fold?</div> -<div class="verse">’Twas the first dropped this lambing time; maybe</div> -<div class="verse">He’ll take it kindly from the likes o’ we,</div> -<div class="verse">We being simple shepherds.</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">Gabriel.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="indent13">Simple? Yes!</div> -<div class="verse">Would God, all minds had this same simpleness!</div> -<div class="verse">Take Him what gifts ye will! To-night on earth</div> -<div class="verse">All’s peace to greet Christ’s birth.</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">5th Shepherd.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="indent17">Noticed you that?</div> -<div class="verse">He made the shepherd’s sign: ’a did it pat!</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">Shepherds</span> (<i>without</i>).</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">Come on, lads, come!</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">6th Shepherd.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="indent10">Good-night, Sir.</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">Gabriel.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="indent17">Peace befall</div> -<div class="verse">You and your ways! Good-night, friend; good-night, all.</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="right">[<i>Exeunt</i> <span class="smcap">Shepherds</span>.</div> -</div></div></div> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_18"></a>[18]</span> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">Shepherds</span> (<i>in the distance singing</i>).</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">And we will go, and we will go,</div> -<div class="indent">The way we know to Bethlehem;</div> -<div class="verse">That Love may show, and we may know,</div> -<div class="indent">’Tis even so as you proclaim.</div> -</div></div></div> - - -<p class="center"><i>Enter the</i> <span class="smcap">Angel of the Star</span>. <i>He crosses the -stage and departs.</i></p> - -<p class="center"><i>Enter the</i> <span class="smcap">Kings</span>.</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">1st King.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">Hear me, O King of Kings,</div> -<div class="indent">And give me my desire!</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">2nd King.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">Hive me beneath Thy wings,</div> -<div class="indent">And guide my feet with fire!</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">3rd King.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">Unto that Holy Mount,</div> -<div class="indent">Where forth from Thee goes Light.</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">All.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">Whence springs a Living Fount</div> -<div class="indent">To wash the whole world white.</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_19"></a>[19]</span> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">Gabriel.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">Peace be with you, and hail!</div> -<div class="verse">Where go ye this fair night,</div> -<div class="verse">Travellers, and what seek ye?</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">1st King.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">We seek from the hill the vale,</div> -<div class="verse">And from the vale the hill.</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">2nd King.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">From the ends of the morning, rest;</div> -<div class="verse">And from the East the West.</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">3rd King.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">In the darkness we seek fire,</div> -<div class="verse">And out of dreams the heart’s desire!</div> -<div class="verse">And, if to-day we fail,</div> -<div class="verse">To-morrow we seek it still.</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">Gabriel.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">Are ye not weary, seeking so?</div> -<div class="verse">Are ye not laden with care?</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">1st King.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">We are not weary. If our feet be slow,</div> -<div class="verse">’Tis with the burden of the Love we bear.</div> -<div class="verse">It is our longing for the Light we seek</div> -<div class="verse">Which makes us weak.</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_20"></a>[20]</span> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">Gabriel.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">What is the longing of each one?</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">3rd King.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">Melchior, wilt thou first speak?</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">2nd King.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">Too slow my footsteps move</div> -<div class="verse">For the goal I seek to prove.</div> -<div class="verse">My body is a waste,</div> -<div class="verse">Through which my soul doth haste,</div> -<div class="verse">Famished until it taste</div> -<div class="verse">Its nameless new desire!</div> -<div class="verse">A flame my spirit owns,</div> -<div class="verse">Ashes are all my bones,</div> -<div class="verse">Love lights in me such fire!</div> -<div class="verse">I thirst! my throat is dried!</div> -<div class="verse">I ask;—am still denied!</div> -<div class="verse">Cry to be satisfied:</div> -<div class="verse">Yet only as Love will.</div> -<div class="verse">Now, if He come not first,</div> -<div class="verse">Not death, but ease were worst;—</div> -<div class="verse">Let me die, thirsting still!</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">Gabriel.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">And you?</div> -</div></div></div> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="stanza"><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_21"></a>[21]</span> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">3rd King.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="indent8">I have such Love!</div> -<div class="verse">Beauty, I know not of,</div> -<div class="verse">Hath laid on me the vision of its Light.</div> -<div class="verse">When that Light shines, earth’s ends</div> -<div class="verse">Therein shall all be friends:</div> -<div class="verse">They shall not hurt nor kill, but on the height</div> -<div class="verse">Named Holy shall be peace.</div> -<div class="verse">Then shall all warfare cease,</div> -<div class="verse">And every king his crown</div> -<div class="verse">Shall at the cradle of a new-born Babe lay down.</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">Gabriel.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">And thou, that standest last,</div> -<div class="verse">Say what desire thou hast?</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">1st King.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">For Earth’s waiting to be done;</div> -<div class="verse">For God to send forth His Son,</div> -<div class="verse">Godhead and man made one!</div> -<div class="verse">That creation, wrought afresh,</div> -<div class="verse">May be finished and made whole;</div> -<div class="verse">That the Word may become Flesh,</div> -<div class="verse">And Earth receive her soul!</div> -<div class="indent4">Pray we for this,</div> -<div class="indent4">Seeing well how good it is.</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_22"></a>[22]</span> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">Gabriel.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">Behold, this night shall bring you to your bliss.</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">3rd King.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">Whence comes thy knowledge to make hope so near?</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">Gabriel.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">Oh, let your ears be opened till they hear!</div> -<div class="verse">Open your eyes, and mark with fearless sight</div> -<div class="verse">The throng of thanksgiving which fills this night:</div> -<div class="verse">Nor walks on heaven alone, but earth as well!</div> -<div class="verse">Sound in sweet tone, celestial Choirs, and tell!</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">Angels</span> (<i>appearing</i>).</div> -</div></div></div> - -<table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2" summary="table"> - -<tr><td>Glory to God</td><td class="tdl"> In the Highest!</td></tr> -<tr><td>Who unto man</td><td class="tdl"> Now comes nighest.</td></tr> -<tr><td>Peace be to earth!</td><td class="tdl"> Goodwill to all!</td></tr> -<tr><td>Christ the new Birth</td><td class="tdl"> Redeems man’s fall.</td></tr> -</table> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">1st King.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">Oh, ye blest sounds, be as the air we breathe!</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">2nd King.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">Oh, fair things seen, your light to us bequeath!</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_23"></a>[23]</span> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">3rd King.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">And if there be an ending to our quest,</div> -<div class="verse">Show, now, where lies our rest!</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">Gabriel.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">O Kings, your quest is ended now, earth joins</div> -<div class="verse">To greet her Lord, in Heaven’s exultant strains.</div> -<div class="verse">Righteousness is the girdle of His loins,</div> -<div class="verse">And faithfulness the girdle of His reins.</div> -<div class="verse">The Spirit of God shall rest on Him, of might,</div> -<div class="verse">Of wisdom, and of counsel, and of fear:</div> -<div class="verse">He shall not judge according unto sight,</div> -<div class="verse">Neither reprove by the hearing of His ear:</div> -<div class="verse">But by His righteousness shall He do right,</div> -<div class="verse">And with His equity the meek repay;</div> -<div class="verse">Out of His mouth a rod the earth shall smite,</div> -<div class="verse">And by His breath the wicked He shall slay.</div> -<div class="verse">The wolf shall make his dwelling in the fold,</div> -<div class="verse">The leopard and the kid together play,</div> -<div class="verse">The young lion with the fatling: and behold</div> -<div class="verse">A Little Child shall lead them in the way!</div> -<div class="verse">Then like the ox the lion shall eat straw,</div> -<div class="verse">The calf and the young bear be in one pen;</div> -<div class="verse">The suckling from his hole the asp shall draw,</div> -<div class="verse">And the weaned child play by the adder’s den.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_24"></a>[24]</span> -<div class="verse">They shall not hurt in all my Holy Hill,</div> -<div class="verse">Nor shall there any more destruction be:</div> -<div class="verse">The knowledge of the Lord the earth shall fill,</div> -<div class="verse">Even as the water covereth the sea.</div> -<div class="verse">And He shall raise His people from their sin.</div> -<div class="verse">This is the way of Life: walk ye therein!</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">1st King.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">Where shall we find Him? where throw off our load?</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">Gabriel.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">In Bethlehem Peace makes His fair abode.</div> -<div class="verse">Yonder His star still lights you to your road.</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="right">[<i>Exeunt the</i> <span class="smcap">Kings</span>.</div> -</div></div></div> - - - - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="chapter"> -<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_25"></a>[25]</span> - -<h2 class="nobreak">ACT II.</h2> -</div> - - -<p class="center"><i>The inn-stable at Bethlehem. Without, voices are -heard singing.</i></p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">‘Noel, Noel, Noel,’</div> -<div class="indent">Sang the church bell;</div> -<div class="verse">‘God’s in His Heaven,</div> -<div class="indent">This know well!’</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">Noel, Noel, Noel,</div> -<div class="indent">Ding-dong-bell,</div> -<div class="verse">God from High Heaven</div> -<div class="indent">Comes on earth to dwell.</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">‘Noel, Noel, Noel,’</div> -<div class="indent">Bells ring on earth,</div> -<div class="verse">‘Come and know well</div> -<div class="indent">This bright Birth!’</div> -</div></div></div> - - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">Joseph.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">Sleepest thou, Mary?</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_26"></a>[26]</span> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">Mary.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="indent12">I sleep not; I pray.</div> -<div class="verse">Behold, on me my Lord His Head doth lay.</div> -<div class="verse">Look how in sleep He takes a mortal’s rest:</div> -<div class="verse">See where His Hand is laid upon my breast!</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">Joseph.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">Mary, I dread to see!</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">Mary.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="indent12">Nay, come more near;</div> -<div class="verse">But wake Him not!</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">Joseph.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="indent10">Alas! I have such fear.</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">Mary.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">I, too: my soul is glad through very dread</div> -<div class="verse">While in this chamber God doth make His bed:</div> -<div class="verse">For now our eyes behold the glorious Birth</div> -<div class="verse">Which shall uplift again low-fallen earth.</div> -<div class="verse">Here, where He rests, amid these hollowed rocks,</div> -<div class="verse">I hear the world’s heart move in joyful shocks,—</div> -<div class="verse">The pulsing of her rivers and her springs:</div> -<div class="verse">I feel the air beat with the throb of wings:</div> -<div class="verse">And farther up, amid the heavenly maze,</div> -<div class="verse">The stars and planets with adoring gaze</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_27"></a>[27]</span> -<div class="verse">Look down and say, ‘O maid with favour stored,</div> -<div class="verse">How com’st thou to be Mother of our Lord?’</div> -<div class="verse">What can I answer, I? Let Gabriel</div> -<div class="verse">Speak to those heavenly questioners, and tell</div> -<div class="verse">How by the Holy Ghost this came to be;</div> -<div class="verse">How power from the Highest o’ershadowed me,</div> -<div class="verse">Till in my heart God came Himself to lie,</div> -<div class="verse">Perfect fulfilment of all prophecy.</div> -<div class="verse">Naught may I know save this: His handmaid I.</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">Voices.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="indent">‘Ave Maria, gratia plena, Dominus tecum!<br /> -Benedicta tu in mulieribus, et Benedictus Fructus<br /> -ventris tui, Jesus.’</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> - -<div class="right">[<i>A knocking is heard.</i></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">Joseph.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">Who knocks?</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">Shepherd</span> (<i>without</i>).</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="indent6">A friend: we be all friendly men:</div> -<div class="verse">We be the shepherds.</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">Joseph.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="indent12">Come in, shepherds, then:</div> -<div class="verse">Here’s welcome waiting you! Behold and bless</div> -<div class="verse">The Peace within your gates, the Plenteousness!</div> -</div></div></div> - - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_28"></a>[28]</span></p> - -<p class="center"><i>The</i> <span class="smcap">Shepherds</span> <i>enter</i>.</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">1st Shepherd.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">Mother of God, welcome to Bethlehem!</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">Mary.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">Shepherds of Israel, welcome to Christ’s Birth!</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> - -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">Omnes.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="indent">Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with</div> -<div class="verse">thee! Blessed art thou among women, and blessed</div> -<div class="verse">is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary,</div> -<div class="verse">Mother of God, pray for us sinners now, and</div> -<div class="verse">in the hour of our death. Amen.</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">Mary.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">Behold the handmaid of the Lord!</div> -<div class="verse">So as His Word hath His Way been;</div> -<div class="verse">Now Earth to Heaven doth room afford;</div> -<div class="verse">The Godhead veiled in Flesh is seen.</div> -<div class="indent">Come and adore, in form of man,</div> -<div class="indent">The Word that was ere worlds began!</div> -</div></div></div> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="stanza"><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_29"></a>[29]</span> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">Omnes.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">Mother Mary, hail!</div> -<div class="indent">And of thy Grace,</div> -<div class="verse">Lift away the veil</div> -<div class="indent">That hides God’s face!</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">Here God lies</div> -<div class="indent">For a short space.</div> -<div class="verse">Mary, Mother wise,</div> -<div class="indent">Show us God’s face!</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">Mary, all the lands,</div> -<div class="indent">Mary, all the seas,</div> -<div class="verse">Gather in thy hands</div> -<div class="indent">To thy dear knees!</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">Mary, maiden white,</div> -<div class="indent">Mother, pure within,</div> -<div class="verse">Show to mortal sight</div> -<div class="indent">Love that cures sin!</div> -</div></div></div> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">1st Shepherd.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">Mother Mary, may we see God?</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">Mary.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">Stand near in faith, behold,</div> -<div class="indent">Be comforted by Him!</div> -<div class="verse">Here, shepherds, is your fold.</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_30"></a>[30]</span> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">Abel.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">Lady, I cannot see: mine eyes are dim.</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">Mary.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">Come near, in faith: come near!</div> -<div class="indent">Thou shalt win sight.</div> -<div class="verse">Doubt not: have thou no fear!</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">Abel.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">Lady, mine eyes be healed and full of light!</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">Mary.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">Even so, even so,</div> -<div class="verse">Let Earth perceive and know!</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">1st Shepherd.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">Son of God, shine on us!</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">2nd Shepherd.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">Lamb of God, look on us!</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">3rd Shepherd.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">Shepherd of men, set Thy sign on us!</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">4th Shepherd.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">And lay Thy yoke on us!</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_31"></a>[31]</span> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">5th Shepherd.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">And we will be thankful.</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">1st Shepherd</span> (<i>kneeling</i>).</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">Queen, Mother, pardon me who make so bold</div> -<div class="verse">To speak! but hearts grown full be hard to hold</div> -<div class="verse">To-night, as Heaven hath willed, have come thy way</div> -<div class="verse">Poor folk with meagre speech yet much to say.</div> -<div class="verse">So, if word lack, let thine own wisdom fill:</div> -<div class="verse">And—give me countenance!—I’ll not speak ill.</div> -<div class="verse">Dear Mother, pray for us! Foolish we be,</div> -<div class="verse">Untaught and rude: but what we see we see,</div> -<div class="verse">And what we hear we hear; to what’s above</div> -<div class="verse">Our heads we bow: and what we love we love!</div> -<div class="verse">And, loving thee since our first entrance in,</div> -<div class="verse">Do thereby more love God, and more hate sin;</div> -<div class="verse">And of all lips would have thy lips to pray</div> -<div class="verse">Pardon for us and peace to seek His way.</div> -<div class="indent">Fair Mother, we have old men here among,</div> -<div class="verse">As thou may’st see; and thou, we see, art young:</div> -<div class="verse">Yet the name ‘Mother’ runneth to the tongue</div> -<div class="verse">That seeks a name for thee. May we not all</div> -<div class="verse">Thee as our Lady and our Mother call,</div> -<div class="verse">For thy Son’s sake?</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_32"></a>[32]</span> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">Mary.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="indent10">Amen. So, shepherds, do!</div> -<div class="verse">Call as Love bids you, and I’ll answer you.</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">1st Shepherd.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">Mother, I have laid bread here at thy feet.</div> -<div class="verse">For thy Son’s sake, I pray thee take and eat!</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">2nd Shepherd.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">Mother, I bring thee milk.</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">3rd Shepherd.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="indent12a">I bring thee cheese.</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">4th Shepherd.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">I have brought nuts. Strengthen His teeth on these,</div> -<div class="verse">When they begin to pair.</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">5th Shepherd.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="indent12a">Also here’s wine,</div> -<div class="verse">Good for a festal, or when frost bites fine.</div> -<div class="verse">Also my cloak is thine.</div> -</div></div></div> - - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">6th Shepherd.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">Dear Mother, for God’s sake,</div> -<div class="verse">Wilt thou, I prithee, take</div> -<div class="indent">This firstling from the fold?</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_33"></a>[33]</span> -<div class="verse">It is so beautiful,</div> -<div class="verse">And thereto hath warm wool</div> -<div class="indent">To ward one from the cold.</div> -<div class="verse">Take it, then, to thy lap</div> -<div class="indent">Beside thy Son:</div> -<div class="verse">It may keep warm, mayhap,</div> -<div class="indent">The Blessed One.</div> -</div></div></div> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">Mary.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">It shall keep warm my heart, shepherd, to thee.</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">7th Shepherd.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">Mother, my empty hands do me a wrong:</div> -<div class="verse">No gift have I, but in my lips a song</div> -<div class="indent">Such as we shepherds sing.</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">Mary.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="indent13">Such songs are best.</div> -<div class="verse">To-night your lips shall lull the Shepherd’s King</div> -<div class="indent2">To rest.</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">7th Shepherd</span> (<i>sings</i>).</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="indent4">The world is old to-night,</div> -<div class="indent6">The world is old;</div> -<div class="indent4">The stars around the fold</div> -<div class="indent6">Do show their light.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_34"></a>[34]</span> -<div class="indent4">And so they did, and so,</div> -<div class="indent4">A thousand years ago,</div> -<div class="verse">And so will do, dear Love, when you lie cold.</div> -<div class="verse">(<i>Speaks.</i>) Nay, nay, but I can sing no more thereof;</div> -<div class="verse">I had forgot the sadness of the end!</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">Mary.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">Thou hast but prophesied how men shall scoff</div> -<div class="indent">Even at Love, my friend.</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="right">[<i>Knocking is heard.</i></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">Joseph.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">Ho, there without! Who knocks? Come ye in peace?</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">Kings</span> (<i>without</i>).</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">Kings, seeking it, we come!</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">Joseph.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="indent13">Here enter, and find ease!</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">The Kings</span> <i>enter</i>.</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">1st King.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">Blessed be God!</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">Omnes.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">Blessed be God!</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">2nd King.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">Blessed be His Holy Name!</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_35"></a>[35]</span> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">Omnes.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">Blessed be His Holy Name!</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">3rd King.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">Blessed be Jesus Christ, true God and true Man!</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">Omnes.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">Blessed be Jesus Christ, true God and true Man!</div> -</div></div></div> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">1st King.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="indent4">Oh, finished quest!</div> -<div class="indent5">Oh, rest!</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">2nd King.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="indent4">Oh, Fount, that first</div> -<div class="indent4">Of all hath satisfied my thirst!</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">3rd King.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="indent4">Oh, Light,</div> -<div class="indent4">That brings me sight!</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">1st King.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="indent4">Thou Birth Divine,</div> -<div class="indent6">Behold,</div> -<div class="indent4">The earthly sign</div> -<div class="verse">Of power and kingship, gold,</div> -<div class="verse">Here in my hands I hold,</div> -<div class="indent4">And offer, to be Thine.</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_36"></a>[36]</span> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">2nd King.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="indent4">This frankincense</div> -<div class="indent6">Let be</div> -<div class="verse">A symbol, whence</div> -<div class="verse">All men may learn to see</div> -<div class="verse">How veiled a mystery</div> -<div class="verse">Defeats man’s sense where Godhead deigns to be.</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">3rd King.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">Oh, Comforter of souls,</div> -<div class="indent4">I bring Thee myrrh.</div> -<div class="verse">When grief my heart controls</div> -<div class="verse">And darkness round me rolls,</div> -<div class="indent4">Sweet Saviour, be Thou near!</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">The Three Kings.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">Thanksgiving, Praise, and Prayer,</div> -<div class="indent4">Three offerings meet,</div> -<div class="verse">We lay in equal share</div> -<div class="indent4">Before Christ’s feet.</div> -</div></div></div> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">Mary.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">Your welcome gifts,</div> -<div class="verse">Proffered in love, from Earth to Heaven He lifts.</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_37"></a>[37]</span> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">The Kings.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">Now see we Love on Earth His throne!</div> -<div class="indent4">All we have known,</div> -<div class="indent6">Or hoped to gain,</div> -<div class="indent4">Was this alone—</div> -<div class="indent6">That He might reign!</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">Omnes.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="indent6">That He might reign!</div> -<div class="indent4">Oh, welcome Birth! let all adore</div> -<div class="indent4">The Christ made Man for evermore.</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">The Shepherds.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="indent4">’Tis Christmas morn:</div> -<div class="indent6">Come ye, and bow the knee</div> -<div class="indent6">Lo, here we see</div> -<div class="indent4">The perfect Man is born.</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">Chorus.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="center">(<i>in alternate parts</i>, <span class="smcap">Kings</span> <i>and</i> <span class="smcap">Shepherds</span>).</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="indent4">For this fair Birth</div> -<div class="indent6">(Which now we see!)</div> -<div class="indent4">Shows forth God’s worth,</div> -<div class="indent6">(Then sing we merrily!)</div> -<div class="indent4">And makes glad earth,</div> -<div class="indent4">And brings man mirth,</div> -<div class="indent6">(So sing we merrily this fair Birth!)</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_38"></a>[38]</span> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">The Kings.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="indent4">’Tis Christmas Day:</div> -<div class="indent6">Oh pray,—put off your sins!</div> -<div class="indent6">This day begins</div> -<div class="indent4">For man the perfect way.</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">Chorus</span> (<i>as before</i>).</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="indent6">For this fair Birth, etc.</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> - - -<div class="right">[<i>During this song the Attendants of the</i> <span class="smcap">Kings</span> <i>have entered</i>.</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">Omnes.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> - -<div class="verse">Mother Mary, give us thy Son’s Blessing!</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="indent-1">(<i>They sing.</i>) Mary, Gate of Day,</div> -<div class="indent8">Lend thine intercession!</div> -<div class="indent5">Holy Mother Mary,</div> -<div class="indent8">Pray for my transgression!</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="indent5">Ere He yet touched Earth,</div> -<div class="indent8">He did first touch thee;</div> -<div class="indent5">Through thy perfect worth</div> -<div class="indent8">God reached down for me.</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_39"></a>[39]</span> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">Mary.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="indent5">The word expressed</div> -<div class="indent8">In Flesh hath come;</div> -<div class="indent5">Against my breast</div> -<div class="indent8">The Voice lies dumb,</div> -<div class="verse">That shall be of all prophecies the sum.</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="indent5">Oh, Thou dread Voice</div> -<div class="indent8">Of Heaven’s decree,</div> -<div class="indent5">Who madest choice</div> -<div class="indent8">To dwell with me,</div> -<div class="verse">Now through my lips, this once, let utterance be!</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="indent5">My Peace I leave,</div> -<div class="indent8">My Peace I give:</div> -<div class="indent5">All that receive</div> -<div class="indent8">The same shall live;</div> -<div class="verse">And tribute hearts win joy retributive.</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="indent5">The Cup I bless,</div> -<div class="indent8">The Bread I break,</div> -<div class="indent5">Is Righteousness!</div> -<div class="indent8">Draw near and take!</div> -<div class="verse">Eat, drink, and hold remembrance for Love’s sake!</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_40"></a>[40]</span> -<div class="indent5">The peace of Peace,</div> -<div class="indent8">Outpassing sense,</div> -<div class="indent5">Give your mind’s ease</div> -<div class="indent8">When ye go hence.</div> -<div class="verse">Love, peace, and pardon be your recompense!</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> - - - -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">Omnes.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="indent"> Hail, Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with</div> -<div class="verse">thee! Blessed art thou among women, and blessed</div> -<div class="verse">is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary,</div> -<div class="verse">Mother of God, pray for us sinners now, and</div> -<div class="verse">in the hour of our death. Amen.</div> - -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">Mary.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">Kings from far countries have ye come to see</div> -<div class="verse">A King Whose reign shall make all kingdoms free.</div> -<div class="verse">Low at His feet your crowns ye cast to ground;</div> -<div class="verse">From this day forward ye shall go more crowned;</div> -<div class="verse">For, named hereafter, ye shall be named wise,</div> -<div class="verse">Seeing that in Heaven ye watched Christ’s star arise.</div> -<div class="verse">Great kings ye came, but much more great ye go,</div> -<div class="verse">Who to His state have bowed yourselves so low.</div> -<div class="indent">And you, dear Shepherds, to your settled folds</div> -<div class="verse">Return, and father your sweet flocks to rest!</div> -<div class="verse">Though Heavenly signs depart, Heaven’s purpose holds,</div><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_41"></a>[41]</span> -<div class="verse">Where Earth’s Redemption slumbers at my breast.</div> -<div class="verse">Look where He lies! Kiss ye His feet, and go!</div> -<div class="verse">Your Shepherd He: Whose sheep are ye, I know.</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">When mothers teach to babes their mother-tongue,</div> -<div class="indent2">This tale shall first be told:</div> -<div class="indent2">How to His birth ye came in days of old,</div> -<div class="verse">While starlight led and seraph-voices sung.</div> -<div class="verse">So, in that story, shall your names stay young.</div> -<div class="indent2">Farewell; give thanks for this! Ye to Christ’s fold</div> -<div class="indent2">Are come. Take all the bliss that hearts on earth may hold!</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> - -<div class="right">[<i>Exeunt</i> <span class="smcap">Kings</span>, <span class="smcap">Shepherds</span>, <i>and</i> <span class="smcap">Attendants</span>.</div> - -</div></div></div> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">Shepherds and Kings</span> (<i>without</i>).</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> - -<div class="verse">I heard on Christmas night</div> -<div class="indent2">The loud bells ringing:</div> -<div class="verse">‘New Life and Light</div> -<div class="indent2">Christ comes bringing!’</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> - -<div class="center"><i>Chorus.</i></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> - -<div class="indent3">Oh, that is true, is true,</div> -<div class="indent5">And better could not be!</div> -<div class="indent3">So God bless you!</div> -<div class="indent5">And God bless me!</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_42"></a>[42]</span> - -<div class="verse">I heard on Christmas night</div> -<div class="indent2">The glad news pealing:</div> -<div class="verse">‘Christ to human sight</div> -<div class="indent2">Now gives healing!’</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> - -<div class="indent3">Oh, that is true, is true,</div> -<div class="indent5">And better could not be!</div> -<div class="indent3">So God bless you!</div> -<div class="indent5">And God bless me!</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> - -<div class="verse">I heard on Christmas night</div> -<div class="indent2">The high Heavens telling:</div> -<div class="verse">‘Christ who left His height,</div> -<div class="indent2">On earth finds dwelling!’</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> - -<div class="indent3">Oh, that is true, is true,</div> -<div class="indent5">And better could not be!</div> -<div class="indent3">So God bless you!</div> -<div class="indent5">And God bless me!</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> - -<div class="verse">From Mary, Queen of Might,</div> -<div class="indent2">Comes down sweet saying:</div> -<div class="verse">‘I hear, on Christmas night,</div> -<div class="indent2">All poor hearts praying!’</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> - -<div class="indent3">Oh, that is true, is true,</div> -<div class="indent5">And better could not be!</div> -<div class="indent3">So God bless you!</div> -<div class="indent5">And God bless me!</div> -</div></div></div> - - - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_43"></a>[43]</span></p> - -<p class="center"><i>Enter</i> <span class="smcap">Gabriel</span>.</p> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">Gabriel.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">Servant of God, sleep not, awake!</div> -<div class="indent">Saddle the ass ere dawn of day;</div> -<div class="verse">The Mother, and the young Child take,</div> -<div class="indent">Whom Herod seeketh now to slay;</div> -<div class="verse">Get thee hence ere the wakening bird</div> -<div class="indent">Hath sung; to Egypt win thy way:</div> -<div class="verse">There, till I come and bring thee word,</div> -<div class="indent">Shalt thou in hiding stay.</div> -<div class="verse">As thou hast heard, make haste, obey!</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="right">[<i>Exit.</i></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> - - -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">Joseph.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">Mary, arise; hence must we go,</div> -<div class="indent">Even before the dawn of day.</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">Mary.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="indent-4">It is God’s will?</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">Joseph.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="indent8">’Tis even so:</div> -<div class="indent-4">His angel’s word.</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">Mary.</span></div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="indent8">Which we obey.</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="right">[<i>Exeunt.</i></div> -</div></div></div> - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="stanza"> - -<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_44"></a>[44]</span> - -<div class="center"><span class="smcap">Voices of Carol-Singers</span> (<i>without</i>).</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse">God rest you, merry gentlemen,</div> -<div class="indent2">Let nothing you dismay!</div> -<div class="verse">Because that Jesus Christ our Lord</div> -<div class="indent2">Is born on Christmas Day!</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> - -<div class="center">[<span class="smcap">Curtain.</span>]</div> -</div></div></div> - - -<div class="poetry-container"> -<div class="poetry"> -<div class="stanza"> - - -<div class="center"><i>Enter</i> <span class="smcap">Chorus</span>.</div> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<div class="verse"><i>Chorus.</i> Oh Maid and Holy Child, where have ye gone?</div> -<div class="verse">Lost are the voices, sets the Star that shone:</div> -<div class="verse">Back to their folds have gone the shepherd-band:</div> -<div class="verse">Each king is now returned to his own land.</div> -<div class="verse">Love is gone forth into the world to win</div> -<div class="verse">Saints to their rest, and sinners back from sin.</div> -<div class="indent">Gentles, O ye that here have watched our play,</div> -<div class="verse">Tell me, I pray you, did He pass <i>your</i> way?</div> -<div class="verse">Say have ye Him safe, each one, in his breast?</div> -<div class="verse">Oh, hold Him well! So shall we all have rest.</div> -<div class="verse">The grace of Jesus Christ, who is our Lord,</div> -<div class="verse">The Love of God, the Holy Ghost’s accord,</div> -<div class="verse">Be with us all! 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