Category: Plays/Films/Dramas
_Then, enter_ ZACHARY (L.); _walking with a stick, carrying a bundle and a lantern. His shoulders are covered with snow. He walks very slowly. In centre of stage he halts, looks about him slowly._
[_Curtain rises again on same scene as before. But the Manger is not there. In centre back of stage stands a dais, and upon it a tall chair, bare; two unlighted candles stand up...
1. SCENE I_Then, enter_ ZACHARY (L.); _walking with a stick, carrying a bundle and a lantern. His shoulders are covered with snow. He walks very slowly. In centre of stage he halts, looks...
2. SCENE IICome let us all sweet carols sing,[5] Omni relicto tædio Of Mary, Mother of our King, Christoque Jesu Filio. When she had borne that Holy Thing. Reponit in præsepio (_bis_).
3. SCENE IIIThe first Nowell the angel did say,[6] Was to certain poor shepherds in fields as they lay; In fields where they lay keeping their sheep, On a cold winter’s night that was so deep.
4. SCENE IVLike silver lamps in a distant shrine The stars are sparkling bright, The bells of the City of God ring out, For the Son of Mary was born to-night. The gloom is past, and the mo...