THE INN THAT MISSED ITS CHANCE (
The landlord speaks, A.D. 28) What could be done? The inn was full of folks:
His Honor, Marcus Lucius, and his scribes
Who made the cencus; honorable men
From farthest Galilee, come hitherward
To be enrolled; high ladies and their lords;
The rich, the rabbis, such a noble throng
As Bethlehem had never seen before
And may not see again. And there they were,
Close-herded with their servants, till the inn
Was like a hive at swarming-time, and I
Was fairly crazed among them.
Could I know
That they were so important? Just the two,
No servants, just a workman sort of man,
Leading a donkey, and his wife thereon,
Drooping and pale — I saw them not myself./My servants must have driven them away.
But had I seen them, how was I to know?
Were inns to welcome stragglers,…
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