“Will they at vespers be, on Holy Night?
And will they stop and see the little shrine
Where Jesus lies beneath the Star’s true light,
As when, at first, they found him by that sign?”
“Hush, René, hush! and if the eve be fine,
Thou—yes, all three—shall go to meet the Kings.
But children—mark ye well these words of mine!
Each way, of four, to town the traveler brings;
So it may chance ye miss them in your wanderings.”
Such sage replies our questions would receive.