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By the embers in hearthside ease. | By the embers in hearthside ease. | ||
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- (Posted 2023-12-03) CPDL #77791:
- Editor: Christopher Upton (submitted 2023-12-03). Score information: A4, 8 pages, 224 kB Copyright: CC BY NC SA
- Edition notes:
General Information
Title: The Oxen
Composer: Christopher Upton
Lyricist: Thomas Hardy
Number of voices: 5vv Voicing: SSATB
Genre: Sacred, Carol
Language: English
Instruments: Piano
First published: 2023
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Original text and translations
English text
Christmas Eve, and twelve of the clock.
“Now they are all on their knees,”
An elder said as we sat in a flock
By the embers in hearthside ease.
We pictured the meek mild creatures where They dwelt in their strawy pen, Nor did it occur to one of us there To doubt they were kneeling then.
So fair a fancy few would weave In these years! Yet, I feel, If someone said on Christmas Eve, “Come; see the oxen kneel,
“In the lonely barton by yonder coomb Our childhood used to know,” I should go with him in the gloom, Hoping it might be so.