. St. Nicholas [serial] . KING JOHN REFUSES TO SIGN MAGNA CHARTA was its kcy-nole. To the Greeks, a beautiful bodyindicated a beautiful soul. A Greek are the glorious Greeks of in mien and mind;Their bones are mingled with the mold. Their dust is on the wind ;The forms they hewed from living stone Survive the waste of years, alone,And, scattered with their ashes, showWhat greatness perished long ago. Child of To-day {looking into the crystal;starts back with fear). Oh, this is a dreadfulpicture ! Men are running about wildly ! Father Time. It is the year 1215. Again t
. St. Nicholas [serial] . KING JOHN REFUSES TO SIGN MAGNA CHARTA was its kcy-nole. To the Greeks, a beautiful bodyindicated a beautiful soul. A Greek are the glorious Greeks of in mien and mind;Their bones are mingled with the mold. Their dust is on the wind ;The forms they hewed from living stone Survive the waste of years, alone,And, scattered with their ashes, showWhat greatness perished long ago. Child of To-day {looking into the crystal;starts back with fear). Oh, this is a dreadfulpicture ! Men are running about wildly ! Father Time. It is the year 1215. Again thecry of the oppressed people has been heard. Theydemand that King John sign the great charter. (King John followed by three attendants comein. He ascends a small raised stand. A crowd ofpeople follow him in. One of the barons advances:hands him a roll of parchment. King John pushesit aside. Another hands it again, while the voicenf the people is heard, Sign! Sign! Again he. MOliUlS refuses. The crowd presses nearer to him, ges-ticulating ivildly. He suddenly seizes the paper,signs it, and then falls dow)t. He is helped out byhis attendants. The crowd follow, cheering.) Song by the School (Rule Britannia)When Britain first, at Heavens command. Arose from out the azure was the charter, the charter of the land And glorious angels sang the strain,Rule, Britannia! Britannia, rule the waves!Britons ne\-er shall be slaves. (Songs of School and Flag, Rix. Page 49.) Father Time. From that great charter, theMagna Charta, comes one of our greatest demo-cratic rights of to-day—the trial by jury. Child of To-day (looking into the crystal).The people are so happy—they are dancing andshouting! (About twenty children dance an old English I920.] AMERICA, THK BEAUTIFUL 741 dance. The morris-dancc is suitable. As they danceout, the school again takes up the refrain of RuleBritannia.)Child of To-day (frightened). Indians!
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