Maria Consulates of your travels!
we have come, here Bethlehem, decorated with trophies.
we stand at that tavern
who are too tired and too tired you are.
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You have a little 'of the place, O ye of Grey Knight ?
A bit 'of place for me and Joseph?
"Gentlemen, we regret it, it's night of wonder,
are too many foreigners: the rooms I crammed."
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Oste del Moro, you have a shelter for us?
My wife no longer holds, and I'm so broke!
"All I have full hotel, lofts and galleries:
attempt to White Stag, that tavern below.
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O ye of the White Stag, a basement at least
you to sleep? Do not send us somewhere else!
"activates the comet. All I have full hotel
"activates the comet. All I have full hotel
of astronomers and scholars, who have come here from every where.
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Innkeeper of Tre Merli , a sister of mercy!
think about where I was and how far!
"But I have people from the rooftops: waiting for the star.
Son necromancers, magicians Persians, Egyptians, Greeks ...
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Ostedi Cesarea ... "An old carpenter? Hotel?
His wife? Albergarli per niente ?
L'albergo è tutto pieno di cavalieri e dame
non amo la miscela dell'alta e bassa gente ! "
Il campanile scocca le undici lentamente
La neve ! Ecco una stalla ! Avrà posto per due ?
Che freddo ! Siamo a sosta. Ma quanta neve, quanta !
un po' ci scalderanno quell'asino e quel bue...
Maria già trascolora, divinamente affranta...
Il campanile scocca la Mezzanotte Santa
E' nato ! Alleluja ! Alleluja !
E' nato il Sovrano Bambino.
La notte che già fu sì buia,
risplende d'un astro divino.
Orsù cornamuse, più gaie
suonate : squillate, campane !
Venite pastori e massaie,
o genti vicine e lontane !
E' nato Alleluja Alleluja !
Guido Gozzano
