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Bethlehem; A Nativity Play - The Pageant Of Our Lady & Other Poems
Bethlehem A Nativity Play - The Pageant Of Our Lady Other Poems Author:Laurence Housman PREFACE ALL the songs of the Nativity Play, to- gether with the whole of the Pageant of Our and the Christmas Songs, which are Lady here printed, were designed to be set to music by my friend, Mr. Joseph Moorat. Standing thus separate from their context, their appeal reader is necessarily incomplete. that they precede by a very publication to th... more »e I can only hope short time the of the music to which from their first inception they were dedicated in friendship, in admiration and in confidence. L. H. BETHLEHEM ACT 1. 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 Loves 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, ByWhom, from Virgin Birth, our flesh goes worn. Also, ifwe may guide you, ye shall see The manger where in great humility Lieth that Babe, the Maker of us all, By Marys side, amid the beasts in stall. And ye shall see the coming of the Kings, Led by a star and Gabriel that brings 9« less