Christmas Day

Wake All Music’s Magic Pow’rs

Words: Latin, trans. Rev. Henry Ramsden Bramley

Music: Sir John Stainer

Source: Henry Ramsden Bramley and John Stainer, Christmas Carols New and Old, Second Series (London: Novello, Ewer & Co., 1871), Carol #27

1. Wake all music’s magic pow’rs,
On this blissful morning,
Born today, the Child is ours,
Theme of Prophet’s warning;
Giant in the race He tow’rs,
Toil and danger scorning.

Chorus
O that blessed going out,
Which salvation brought about,
O that blessed going out,
Which salvation brought about.

2. Let this glorious holiday
Find such holy spending
That the simple-hearted may
Joy without offending,
And sweet charity may stay,
With our concourse blending
O that blessing going out,
Which salvation brought about. Chorus

3. Give we glory to this feast,
For man’s restoration:
Now the guilty is released,
Freed from condemnation:
By the widow’s son deceased,
See Elisha’s station! Chorus

4. O how bright is this day made,
Day with radiance glowing,
Which the Light of Light displayed,
Light in darkness shewing;
Chasing thus death’s gloomy shade,
Brightness o’er us throwing! Chorus

5. Risen today in splendour bright,
Shining to all ages,
Beams the Sun, whose distant light
Touch’d the Prophet’s pages;
Now, to end the reign of night,
Christ His power engages. Chorus

Sheet Music from Henry Ramsden Bramley and John Stainer, Christmas Carols New and Old (London: Novello, Ewer & Co., ca 1871)

Sheet Music from Charles L. Hutchins, Carols Old and Carols New (Boston: Parish Choir, 1916), Carol 646
MIDI / Noteworthy Composer

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