In Bethlehem was born a babe. He saw

On handmade paper with deckled edges. Manuscript poem in two three-line stanzas. Title from first line. At end of text drawing in colored pencil of Nativity scene initialed in lower right corner E.C.S.[?] Brown University copy signed Beatrice; other similar poems from 1940s at Brown signed Beatrice on verso and B. N. on recto. B. N. lived in Massachusetts in the 1940s. Artist may be E. C. Spiero[?] who illustrated Nowell! God sends the mantled snow, by B. N. (Brown University copy HB33346 MA) Date from notation on Brown University copy.