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Editor: Christopher R. Baker (submitted 2000-11-27). Copyright: Personal

Edition notes: adapted by Lowell Mason

Title: Christmas (While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks)
Composer: George Frideric Handel

Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB

Genre: Sacred, Carol

Language: English
Instruments: a cappella
Published: Boston Handel & Haydn Society Collection of Church Music (1821)

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Original text and translations may be found at While shepherds watched their flocks by night.

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 ==Original text and translations==
+{{LinkText|While shepherds watched their flocks by night}}
-{{Text|English}}
-::::''1.''
-:While shepherds watched their flocks by night,
-:All seated on the ground,
-:The angel of the Lord came down,
-:And glory shone around,
-:And glory shone around.
-::::''2.''
-:“Fear not!” said he, for mighty dread
-:Had seized their troubled mind.
-:“Glad tidings of great joy I bring
-:To you and all mankind
-:To you and all mankind.
-::::''3.''
-:“To you, in David’s town, this day
-:Is born of David’s line
-:A Savior, who is Christ the Lord,
-:And this shall be the sign,
-:And this shall be the sign.
-::::''4.''
-:“The heavenly Babe you there shall find
-:To human view displayed,
-:All meanly wrapped in swathing bands,
-:And in a manger laid,
-:And in a manger laid.”
-::::''5.''
-:Thus spake the seraph and forthwith
-:Appeared a shining throng
-:Of angels praising God on high,
-:Who thus addressed their song,
-:Who thus addressed their song.
-::::''6.''
-:“All glory be to God on high,
-:And to the Earth be peace;
-:Good will henceforth from Heaven to men
-:Begin and never cease,
-:Begin and never cease!”
-:Words:''' Nahum Tate, 1700; ''' first appeared in Tate and '' Brady’s Psalter, 1702. '' <br>
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