In Competition No. 3229, you were invited to provide the story of the Nativity retold in the style of a well-known author.
Star performers, in a most excellent entry, included Janine Beacham’s W.S. Gilbert:
Young Mary was the model of a good and humble Nazarene,
So Gabriel requested of her, ‘be our human go-between,
you will conceive a holy child, in keeping with theocracy,
you and your husband Joseph will be sainthood’s aristocracy…
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