Alternate Title: All This Night Bright Angels Sing

Carol For Christmas Day

Words: William Austin (1587-1634), ca. 1630
Author of Devotionis Augustinianae Flamma, 1635

Music: Arthur S. Sullivan, J. T. Field, F. Fruttchey

Carols 2, 236 and 257, Rev. Charles Lewis Hutchins, Carols Old and Carols New
(Boston: Parish Choir, 1916)

1. All this night bright angels sing
Never was such caroling
Hark! A voice which loudly cries
"Mortals, mortals, wake and rise
    Lo! To gladness,
    Turns your sadness
From the earth is ris'n a Son
Shines all all night though day be done

2. Wake, O earth! wake everything!
Wake! and hear the joy I bring:
Wake and joy! for all this night,
Heaven and every twinkling light,
    All amazing,
    Still stand gazing;
Angels, Powers, and all that be,
Wake, and joy this Son to see!

3. Hail! O Son! O blessed Light,
Sent into this world by night;
Let Thy Rays and heav'nly Pow'rs,
Shine in these dark souls of ours.,
    For most duly,
    Thou art truly
God and Man, we do confess:
Hail, O Son of Righteousness!

Sheet Music by Arthur S. Sullivan from Hutchins, Carols Old and Carols New (Boston: Parish Choir, 1916), # 2
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For more information about Sir Arthur Sullivan's contributions to Christmas music, see A Sullivan Christmas, which includes another MIDI, plus a printable score, of this hymn.

Sheet Music by J. T. Field from Hutchins, # 236
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Sheet Music by F. Fruttchey from Hutchins, # 257
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Sheet Music from Henry Ramsden Bramley and John Stainer, Christmas Carols New and Old (London: Novello, Ewer & Co., ca 1871)

Notes:
1. In some versions, the last line of the stanza is repeated.
2. In some versions the appearance of Son is represented as Sun.