Text: | In the Bleak Midwinter |
Author: | Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830-1894) |
Tune: | CRANHAM |
Composer: | Gustav Theodore Holst (1874-1934) |
1 In the bleak midwinter, frosty wind made moan,
earth stood hard as iron, water like a stone;
snow had fallen, snow on snow, snow on snow,
in the bleak midwinter, long ago.
2 Our God, heaven cannot hold him, nor earth sustain;
heaven and earth shall flee away when he comes to reign:
in the bleak midwinter a stable place sufficed
the Lord God almighty, Jesus Christ.
3 Angels and archangels may have gathered there,
cherubim and seraphim thronged the air;
but his mother only, in her maiden bliss,
worshipped the beloved with a kiss.
4 What can I give him, poor as I am?
If I were a shepherd, I would bring a lamb;
if I were a wise man, I would do my part;
yet what I can, I give him -- give my heart.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | In the bleak midwinter |
Title: | In the Bleak Midwinter |
Author: | Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830-1894) |
Meter: | Irregular |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1998 |
Scripture: | ; |
Topic: | Christmas; Epiphany |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | CRANHAM |
Composer: | Gustav Theodore Holst (1874-1934) |
Meter: | Irregular |
Copyright: | ©n Oxford University Press |