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The Golden Carol (of Melchior, Balthazar, and Gaspar)

Appears in 7 hymnals First Line: We saw a light shine out afar Used With Tune: [We saw a light shine out afar]

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CANARSIE

Appears in 8 hymnals Tune Sources: Traditional Tune Tune Key: d minor or modal Incipit: 51237 11565 43211 Used With Text: The Golden Carol
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[They saw the light shine out afar]

Appears in 3 hymnals Tune Sources: English Traditional Incipit: 31716 55332 34323 Used With Text: Golden Mornings

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We saw a light shine out afar

Hymnal: Carols Old and Carols New #535 (1916) Topics: Christmas Languages: English Tune Title: [We saw a light shine out afar]
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The Golden Carol

Hymnal: Christmas Carols for Male Voices #10 (1939) First Line: We saw a light shine out afar Languages: English Tune Title: [We saw a light shine out afar]

The Golden Carol (of Melchior, Balthazar, and Gaspar)

Hymnal: Christmas Carols #31 (1911) First Line: We saw a light shine out afar Languages: English Tune Title: [We saw a light shine out afar]

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John Stainer

1840 - 1901 Person Name: Rev. J. Stainer Arranger of "[We saw a light shine out afar]" in Carols Old and Carols New

A. F. D.

Author of "Golden Mornings" in The Oxford Book of Carols
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