"Down in Yon Forest," in Lorraine Lee Hammond's "The Magic Dulcimer" (Yellow Moon Press, Cambridge) is a traditional English carol with a pagan feel to it: e.g. verse 3: Down under that bed there runs a flood; The bells of Paradise I heard them ring; The half it runs water, the half it runs blood. And I love my Lord Jesus above anything." The nativity takes place in a hall in a forest, rather than a manger in Bethlehem, and the mystery celebrated is that of birth itself, rather than a particular birth.