Category: Plays/Films/Dramas

Bethlehem: A Nativity Play

Housman, Laurence, 1865-1959· 2 chapters· 4,651 words

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...

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1. ACT I.

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 ma...

2. ACT II.

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!