In the bleak mid-winter (Jennifer Bastable)
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- (Posted 2023-11-27) CPDL #77601:
- Editor: Jennifer Bastable (submitted 2023-11-27). Score information: Letter, 9 pages, 365 kB Copyright: Personal
- Edition notes:
General Information
Title: In the bleak mid-winter
Composer: Jennifer Bastable
Lyricist: Christina Rossetti
Number of voices: 5vv Voicing: SAATB
Genre: Sacred, Carol
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published:
Description: A setting of Christina Rossetti's poem of 1872, for SAATB.
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Original text and translations
English text
In the bleak mid-winter
Frosty wind made moan
Earth stood hard as iron,
Water like a stone;
Snow had fallen, snow on snow,
Snow on snow,
In the bleak mid-winter
Long ago.
Our God, heaven cannot hold Him
Nor earth sustain,
Heaven and earth shall flee away
When He comes to reign:
In the bleak mid-winter
A stable-place sufficed
The Lord God Almighty —
Jesus Christ.
Enough for Him, whom cherubim
Worship night and day,
A breastful of milk
And a mangerful of hay;
Enough for Him, whom Angels
Fall down before,
The ox and ass and camel
Which adore.
Angels and Archangels
May have gathered there,
Cherubim and seraphim
Thronged the air;
But only His Mother
In her maiden bliss
Worshipped the Beloved
With a kiss.
What can I give Him,
Poor as I am? —
If I were a Shepherd
I would bring a lamb;
If I were a Wise Man
I would do my part, —
Yet what I can I give Him, —
Give my heart.