STAGE A
While the Outcasts have been approaching, CASPAR has come forth from the Place of the Tree and watched them coming.
Now, where he joins BELSHASAR and MELCHIOR, the THREE KINGS call, in song, to the dim Figures who draw near.
Carol 8. Trio and Solo. Ballad of the Kings and the Pedlar
THE THREE KINGS
Who are ye that come singing in darkness,
Outcast in the desert so late?
CLAUS
O Kings, it is me, Claus the Pedlar,