_Herod, sword of the world! Who hath surmounted his cunning?_ [Sidenote: _Antiphonal_] _CHORUS B_ _A child! A child hath disarmed him!_ _CHORUS A_ _Herod, wrath of the world! What hath o’erthrown his dominion?_ [Sidenote: _Antiphonal_] _CHORUS B_ _A dream! A dream hath survived him!_ [Sidenote: _Part III. (Choruses A and B) The Child_] _CHORUS A_ (Appearing in their over-garments of WHITE, look toward the place of HEROD while they sing.) _Where are ye that through the blindness of the slaughter,_ _Through the terror and the tempest of the night,—_ _Where are ye that bowed you down to a helmet and a crown?_ _Have you seen the Child His stars?_ _Have you heard the morning stars—_ _His stars that sing around the Tree of light?_ _Will you hasten? Will you heed?_ _Will you bind His wounds that bleed?_ _Will you build his works of joy and charity?_ _Are you risen? Do you hark?_ _Are you coming through the dark—_ _Are you coming, are you coming to the Tree?_ _CHORUS B_ (In their over-garments of RED, rise from the place of their singing, and move forward in procession toward the CHORUS IN WHITE.) _Here are we that knew the blindness of the slaughter,_ _Knew the terror and the tempest of the night:_ _Here are we that bowed us down to a helmet and a crown,_ _But we’ve seen the Child His stars,_ _We have heard the morning stars—_ _His stars that sing around the Tree of light._ _We will hasten! We will heed!_ _We will bind His wounds that bleed;_ _We will build His works of joy and charity._ _We are risen, and we hark!_ _We are coming through the dark—_ _We are coming, we are coming to the Tree!_ (As they approach the Tree, the Singers of CHORUS B lay off their RED over-garments and join the CHORUS IN WHITE. The two CHORUSES now form one. Joined, in their singing, by the HOST OF HEROD, the OUTCASTS, and by ALL THE ASSEMBLED PEOPLE, they raise their Voices together.) _ALL_ _Child of God, forgive the blindness and the slaughter!_ _Child of Pity, calm the terror of the night!_ _Yea, and all that bow them down to a helmet and a crown—_ _Let them see, like us, Thy stars!_ _Let them join the morning stars—_ _Thy stars that sing around the Tree of light!_ _Child of Heaven, now we heed!_ _We will bind Thy wounds that bleed;_ _We will build Thy works of joy and charity._ _We are risen in Thy right:_ _We are singing through the night—_ _We are singing, we are singing to the Tree!_ _Alleluia!_ _Amen!_ [Illustration: THE PEDLAR-KING Bow, Host of Herod! Bow ye down And hail our Saint of Evergreen: Hail _Santa_ Claus!]