TO BETHLEHEM OF JUDA, FROM GALILEE LAND,
CAME JOSEPH AND MARY AT CAESAR'S COMMAND,
THEIR NAMES TO ENROLL IN KING DAVID'S OWN TOWN,
BECAUSE THEY WERE SPRUNG FROM THAT HOUSE OF RENOWN.
BUT WHEN THEY SOUGHT SHELTER AT BETHLEHEM'S INN,
NO PLACE COULD THEY FIND, AND NO SYMPATHY WIN
THE KEEPER REPLIED TO THEIR HUMBLE REQUEST
NO ROOM CAN I MAKE FOR YOUR LODGING AND REST.
A STABLE THEY FOUND IN THEIR TROUBLESOME PLIGHT
TO SERVE AS A REFUGE FROM COLD AND THE NIGHT
AND THERE, BEFORE DARKNESS HAD YIELDED TO MORN,
THE INFANT REDEMER FROM MARY WAS BORN.
THE INFANT REDEMER FROM MARY WAS BORN.
