WORKS BY PERCY MACKAYE _PLAYS_ THE CANTERBURY PILGRIMS. A Comedy. JEANNE D’ARC. A Tragedy. SAPPHO AND PHAON. A Tragedy. FENRIS, THE WOLF. A Tragedy. A GARLAND TO SYLVIA. A Dramatic Reverie. THE SCARECROW. A Tragedy of the Ludicrous. YANKEE FANTASIES. Five One-Act Plays. MATER. An American Study in Comedy. ANTI-MATRIMONY. A Satirical Comedy. TO-MORROW. A Play in Three Acts. A THOUSAND YEARS AGO. A Romance of the Orient. _COMMUNITY DRAMAS_ CALIBAN. A Community Masque. SAINT LOUIS. A Civic Masque. SANCTUARY. A Bird Masque. THE NEW CITIZENSHIP. A Civic Ritual. THE EVERGREEN TREE. A Christmas Masque. _OPERAS_ SINBAD, THE SAILOR. A Fantasy. THE IMMIGRANTS. A Tragedy. THE CANTERBURY PILGRIMS. A Comedy. _POEMS_ THE SISTINE EVE, AND OTHER POEMS. URIEL, AND OTHER POEMS. LINCOLN. A Centenary Ode. THE PRESENT HOUR. Poems of War and Peace. POEMS AND PLAYS. In Two Volumes. _ESSAYS_ THE PLAYHOUSE AND THE PLAY. THE CIVIC THEATRE. A SUBSTITUTE FOR WAR. COMMUNITY DRAMA. An Interpretation. _ALSO (As Editor)_ THE CANTERBURY TALES. A Modern Rendering into Prose. THE MODERN READER’S CHAUCER (with Professor J. S. P. Tatlock). _AT ALL BOOKSELLERS_ [Illustration] [Illustration: DANCE-CAROL OF THE EVERGREEN _So we will sing our even-song_ _And dance for thee, like king and queen,—_ _O Evergreen, dear Evergreen!—_ _To make thy heart be merry._ (Page 42)] The EVERGREEN TREE by PERCY MACKAYE [Illustration] D. APPLETON AND COMPANY NEW YORK LONDON 1917 _Copyright, 1917, by_ PERCY MACKAYE _All Rights Reserved_ NOTE: For Information concerning Permission to produce this Masque or to read it in Public, see ANNOUNCEMENTS, on page 81 of this volume. Printed in the United States of America The EVERGREEN TREE A Masque of Christmas Time for Community Singing and Acting by PERCY MACKAYE With Scenic and Costume Designs by ROBERT EDMOND JONES Together with THREE MONOGRAPHS ON THE MASQUE written by the Author, the Scenic Designer, and ARTHUR FARWELL Composer of the Music