See amid the winter's snow (John Goss)

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• CPDL #157: Finale 1998

Editor: Rafael Ornes (added 1999-09-01).   Score information: 28 kbytes   Copyright: CPDL

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Title: See amid the winter's snow
Composer: John Goss

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB

Genre: Sacred, Carols

Language: English
Instruments: Organ
Published: SOURCE: Christmas Carols, New and Old ed. by John Stainer (1871). Originally titled "Hymn for Christmas Day".

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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:

Lyrics: Edward Caswall (1814-1878), 1851.