Bethlehem: A Nativity PlayProgram for the inaugural production, January 1903. |
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2ND KING 2ND KING Oh 3RD KING 3RD KING Oh 3RD SHEPHERD 4TH SHEPHERD Sir a'ter ABEL Lady ay-oh Babe Behold birth Redeems man's Blessed be Jesus breast bring thee CHORUS Christmas Day Christmas night comes nighest cradle crib cross doth dreams Enter GABRIEL fair Birth fear feet fold Do show GABRIEL Let GABRIEL Oh GABRIEL Peace gifts go ye Godhead Goodwill Happiness hath hear heard on Christmas heart hill Holy Mary Jesus Christ JOSEPH KING Blessed kneel know to Bethlehem lambs lantern Mother of God Noel OMNES Blessed OMNES Hail OMNES Mother Mary pray Redeems man's fall rest Righteousness rock seek SEMI-CHORUS Glory SHEPHERD Mother SHEPHERD sings SHEPHERD Tis SHEPHERDS and KINGS Shiloh show their light sight sing we merrily song star thine thy Son's sake thy womb-Jesus to-night true unto man Peace voices watch our play WATCHER 4TH SHEPHERD wool lies white world is old young
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Page 47 - Hail Mary, full of grace. The Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou among women. And blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God. Pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen.
Page 76 - Oh Maid and Holy Child, where have ye gone ? Lost are the voices, sets the Star that shone : Back to their folds have gone the shepherd-band : Each king is now returned to his own land. Love is gone forth into the world to win Saints to their rest, and sinners back from sin. Gentles, O ye that here have watched our play, Tell me, I pray you, did He pass your way...
Page 45 - Ave, Maria, gratia plena; Dominus tecum: benedicta tu in mulieribus, et benedictus fructus ventris tui Jesus. Sancta Maria, Mater Dei, ora pro nobis peccatoribus, nunc et in hora mortis nostrae. Amen.
Page 10 - IST SHEPHERD I haven't got a doubt He does ! That star — now don't tell me no more. You think he don't know what he's shining for ! Look at him jerking and working, and a-winking and a-blinking : — Well, — that's him thinking.
Page 45 - O maid with favor stored, How com'st thou to be Mother of our Lord ?" What can I answer, I ? Let Gabriel Speak to those heavenly questioners, and tell How by the Holy Ghost this came to be ; How power from the Highest o'ershadowed me, Till in my heart God came Himself to lie, Perfect fulfillment of all prophecy. Naught may I know save this : His handmaid I. VOICES "Ave Maria, gratia plena, Dominus tecum! Benedicta tu in mulieribus, et Benedictus Fructus ventris tui, Jesus.
Page 21 - I'll know to find me way about With such high things a-happening ! Sir, you see There ain't much show about the likes o' we, But what I say's — if this be true — -well, well, Tis the best news that ever I heard tell ! IST SHEPHERD And the best fortune any on us has had ! Lord, though, but don't it make an old heart glad ! Christ born? You say it is so, Sir? So be it ! Thank God...
Page 35 - ... but with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked. And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins.
Page 52 - Poor folk with meagre speech yet much to say. So, if word lack, let thine own wisdom fill : And — give me countenance, — I'll not speak ill. Dear Mother, pray for us ! Foolish we be, Untaught and rude : but what we see we see, And what we hear we hear; to...