And an old white horse galloped away in the meadow. “The angel answered me, ‘These are the four spirits of heaven, going out from standing

With a running stream and a watermill beating the darkness, and three trees in the low sky. As the Magi descend into the valley in

Then, at dawn, we came down to a temperate valley, wet, below the snow line, smelling of vegetables. The second stanza of the poem brings

According to Luke 2:3, “Everyone went to register in their own town” which meant Joseph and his pregnant betrothed, Mary, needed to travel to Bethlehem

Sleeping in snatches, with the voices ringing in our ears, “This is all folly.” In the last line of Sanza One, Eliot concludes not with

A hard time we had of it. At the end, we preferred to travel all night. The first line echoes the harshness of the journey