Words: Selwyn Image
Music:
Geoffrey Shaw
MIDI /
Noteworthy Composer /
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Carol 615,
Rev. Charles Lewis Hutchins,
Carols Old and Carols
New
(Boston:
Parish Choir, 1916)
1. The
snow lies thick upon the earth
Tonight, when God is come to
birth:
O collaudantes Dominum,
Let's run to give Him
greeting.
His lodging but a stable, see!
Where ox and ass His
courtiers be,
The Mighty Lord in poverty.
Laid low for our
salvation!
2. I hear
sweet Mary sing to rest
The little one against her breast:
O
collaudantes Dominum,
We'll make soft music round them;
For
gentle as a breeze in June
Must be tonight our Carol's tune,
Lest
we awake the Babe too soon
That's born for our salvation.
3. Good
Joseph, may we enter here
To watch her and her child a-near,
Nos
collaudantes Dominum,
And kneel around his cradle;
The
humble beasts that homage pay,
And we as humble sure as
they,
Would keep still watch to break of day
O'er Him that
brings salvation.
4. But
see, but see! the Child's awake!
His pretty hands stretch out to
take,
O collaudantes Dominum,
The simple gifts we bring
Him;
Yea, He forgets for very love
The glory of His home
above,
Nor cares but only this to prove,
He's come for our
salvation!
5. Then let us great, and let us
small,
And young and old, and one and all
Nunc collaudantes Dominum,
With dance and song draw hither!
Bring boughs of holly green and red
To deck about his little bed,
This very God, who lays his head
So low for our salvation.
Editor's Note:
Fifth verse from Martin Shaw and Percy Dearmer, The English Carol Book, First Series (London: A. R. Mowbray & Co., Ltd., 1913), Carol #27
Sheet
Music from Rev. Charles L. Hutchins, Carols Old and Carols
New
(Boston: Parish Choir, 1916), Carol 615
Sheet Music from Martin Shaw and Percy Dearmer, The English Carol Book, First Series (London: A. R. Mowbray & Co., Ltd., 1913), Carol #27
