The Hymns and Carols of Christmas

Here Is Joy For Every Age

Words: Rev. John Mason Neale

Music: Piae Cantiones, Carol 633 from Hutchins
Rev. T. Helmore, Carol 669 from Hutchins

Source: Carol 633, Rev. Charles Lewis Hutchins, Carols Old and Carols New (Boston: Parish Choir, 1916)

1. Here is joy for every age,
Every generation;
Prince and peasant, chief and sage,
Every tongue and nation:
Every tongue and nation,
Every rank and station
Hath today salvation,
    Alle Alleluia. [1]

2. When the world drew near its close,
Came out Lord and Leader;
From the Lily sprang the Rose,
From the Bush the Cedar;
From the Bush the Cedar,
From the judged the Pleader,
From the faint the Feeder:
    Alle Alleluia.

3. God, that came on earth this morn,
In a manger lying,
Hallowed birth by being born,
Vanquished death by dying;
Vanquished death by dying,
Rallied back the flying,
Ended sin and sighing:
    Alle Alleluia.

1. The chorus in Carol 633 is 'Alle Alleluia.' In Carol 669, the chorus is 'Alleluia.' Return

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Sheet Music from Piae Cantiones from Charles L. Hutchins, Carol 633
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Sheet Music by Rev. T. Helmore from Charles L. Hutchins, Carol 669
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Sheet Music from Rev. J. Freeman Young, ed., Carols For Christmas Tide (New York: Daniel Dana, Jr., 1859), #4

Sheet Music from George Ratcliffe Woodward, The Cowley Carol Book, First Series (London: A. R. Mowbray & Co., Ltd., 1902, Revised and Expanded Edition 1929), Carol #30
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