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Text: | In the bleak mid-winter |
Author: | Christina Georgina Rossetti, 1830-1894 |
Tune: | CRANHAM |
Composer: | Gustav Theodore von Holst, 1874-1934 |
1 In the bleak mid-winter,
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 mid-winter
long ago.
2 Heaven cannot hold Him,
nor the earth sustain;
heaven and earth shall flee away
when He comes to reign:
in the bleak mid-winter
a stable-place sufficed
God the Lord Almighty,
Jesus Christ.
3 Enough for Him whom cherubim
worship night and day —
a breastful of milk
and a manger full of hay;
enough for Him whom angels
fall down before —
the wise men and the shepherds
who adore!
4 What can I give Him,
poor as I am?
If I were a shepherd
I would give 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 mid-winter |
Author: | Christina Georgina Rossetti, 1830-1894 |
Meter: | Irregular |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 2004 |
Topic: | Jesus Christ: His Birth |
Source: | Adapt.: Compilers of Hymns of Today's Church, 1982 |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | CRANHAM |
Composer: | Gustav Theodore von Holst, 1874-1934 |
Meter: | Irregular |
Key: | F Major |