And magical laughter,
Wonder of children—
Hail, dear Pedlar—
King of our Evergreen:
Santa! Santa!
Holly-crown’d saint of us!
Hail, eternal
Wise man and child!
(During this Chorus and while it continues, Santa—with beaming face—opens his great pack and distributes forth gifts to the Children, the Outcasts, and the Host of Herod, who now rise joyfully and press round him. Chorus now answers Chorus across the assembled People, the deep voices of the Men’s Chorus (B) now singing in Antiphony.)