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Original setting by Goss
- CPDL #00157: Finale 1998
- Editor: Rafael Ornes (submitted 1999-09-01). Score information: Letter, 1 page, 26 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: Source: Christmas Carols, New and Old ed. by John Stainer (1871). Originally titled "Hymn for Christmas Day".
Arrangements
- Editor: Rod Mather (submitted 2008-12-13). Score information: A4, 1 page, 26 kB Copyright: Public Domain
- Edition notes: May be sung a cappella.
- Editor: Edward L. Stauff (submitted 2004-05-20). Score information: Letter, 1 page, 49 kB Copyright: Personal
- Edition notes: Listed under 'Winter's Snow', this edition arr. Edward L. Stauff for voices a cappella.
General Information
Title: See amid the winter's snow
Composer: John Goss
Lyricist: Edward Caswall (1814-1878), 1851
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Carol
Language: English
Instruments: Organ
Published:
Description:
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Original text and translations
English text
1.
- See amidst the winter's snow,
- Born for us on earth below;
- See the tender lamb apears,
- Promis'd from eternal years.
- Refrain
- Hail, thou ever blessed morn;
- Hail, redemption's happy dawn;
- Sing through all Jerusalem,
- Christ is born in Bethlehem.
2.
- Lo, within a manger lies
- He who built the starry skies;
- He who throned in height sublime,
- Sits amid the cherubim.
- Refrain
3.
- Say, ye holy shepherds, say
- What your joyful news today;
- Wherefore have you left your sheep,
- On the lonely mountain steep?
- Refrain
4.
- As we watch'd at dead of night,
- lo,we saw a wondrous light;
- angels singing, peace on earth
- told us of the Saviour's birth.
- Refrain
5.
- Sacred infant, all divine,
- what a tender love was thine,
- thus to come from highest bliss
- down to such a world as this.
- Refrain
6.
- Teach, O teach us, Holy Child,
- by thy face so meek and mild,
- Teach us to resemble thee,
- in thy sweet humility: