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- Editor: Paul Howarth (submitted 2002-04-08). Score information: Copyright: Personal
- Edition notes: from the Gilbert and Sullivan Archive
General Information
Title: Upon the snow-clad earth
Composer: Arthur Sullivan
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Carol
Language: English
Instruments: a cappella
Published: Metzler & Co., 1876
Description:
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Original text and translations
English text
- 1.
- Upon the snow-clad earth without,
- The stars are shining bright,
- As Heaven had hung out all her lamps
- To hail our festal night:
- For on this night, long years ago,
- The blessed Babe was born,
- The saints of old were wont to keep
- Their vigil until morn.
- 2.
- 'Twas in the days when far and wide
- Men owned the Caesar's sway,
- That his decree went forth that all
- A certain tax should pay.
- Then from their home in Nazareth's vale,
- Obedient to the same,
- With Mary, his espoused wife,
- The saintly Joseph came.
- 3.
- A stable and a manger, where
- The oxen lowed around
- Was all the shelter Bethlehem gave,
- The welcome that they found!
- Yet blessed among women was
- That holy mother maid
- Who on that night her first-born Son
- There in the manger laid.
- 4.
- The King of kings, and Lord of lords,
- E'en from His very birth,
- Had not a place to lay His head,
- An outcast in the earth:
- And yet we know that little Babe
- Was tender to the touch,
- And weak as other infants are;
- He felt the cold as much!
- 5.
- In swaddling bands she wrapped Him round,
- And smoothed His couch of straw,
- While unseen Angels watched beside,
- In mute, adoring awe.
- How softly did they fold their wings
- Beneath that star-lit shed,
- While eastern sages from afar
- The new-born radiance led!
- 6.
- And thus it is, from age to age,
- That as this night comes round,
- So sweetly, underneath the moon,
- The Christmas carols sound.
- Because to us a Child is born,
- Our Brother and our King,
- Angels in Heaven, and we on earth,
- Our joyful anthems sing.