Save shepherds singing;
The lords of earth
Avert their faces;
Dark—dark is his cradle.
Yet surely will dawn break with light of his new morrow:
Alleluia!
Yea, for the babe that sleepeth in a little manger
Is Light of the World: Alleluia!
(The Fairies and Beasts peer in the Manger with awed delight. Murmuring aloud, they speak to Joseph.)
ELF