The Christmas Fairies (Charles Goodban)

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• (Posted 2023-10-22)  CPDL #76537:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-10-22).   Score information: Letter, 12 pages, 720 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: The Christmas Fairies
Composer: Charles Goodban
Lyricist: Charles H. Hitchings^{create page}
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1852 J. Alfred Novello
Description: Scored for 2 trebles, tenor, bass

Original text and translations

English text

Brave Spirits of the woods are we,
Blithe dwellers both by fount and tree,
By Winter exiled from our home,
To haunts of human life we come.

Where, in the Yule-log’s cheerful light,
The Holly burns with berries bright,
And Mirth and Love perpetual flow,
Beneath th’unfading Mistletoe.

We are not seen save in the eye
That beams with generous sympathy;
We are not heard, save in the sound
Of kindly wishes whispered round.

Yet to your hearths our footsteps bring
Some magic of our faery ring,
That in its circle guarded well,
All gentle things may love to dwell.

For wild wood spirits though we be,
Blithe dwellers both by fount and tree,
Whene’er to Christmas hearths we come,
We rise to Angels in your home.