Before the paling of the stars (Arthur Walter Kramer)
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- Editor: Douglas Walczak (submitted 2022-10-29). Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 72 kB Copyright: Personal
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Title: Before the paling of the stars
Composer: Arthur Walter Kramer
Lyricist: Christina Rossetti
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Carol
Language: English
Instruments: Organ
First published: 1914
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Original text and translations
English text
The composer set verses 1 & 3
Before the paling of the stars,
Before the winter morn,
Before the earliest cock crow,
Jesus Christ was born:
Born in a stable,
Cradled in a manger,
In the world his hands had made
Born a stranger.
Jesus on his mother's breast
In the stable cold,
Spotless lamb of God was he,
Shepherd of the fold:
Let us kneel with Mary maid,
With Joseph bent and hoary,
With saint and angel, ox and ass,
To hail the King of Glory.