Bethlehem: A Nativity Play

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
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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