SATB/SSA/TTBB, unaccompanied
Published by J.W. Pepper
Another of the composer’s setting of Christina Rossetti Christmastide poems about the wonders of Christmas (originally titled “Christmas Eve).
Duration: 3’
Libretto:
Christmas hath darkness
Brighter than the blazing noon,
Christmas hath a chillness
Warmer than the heat of June,
Christmas hath a beauty
Lovelier than the world can show:
For Christmas bringeth gladness
All the world can know.
Earth, strike up your music,
Birds that sing and bells that ring;
Heaven hath answering music
For all Angels soon to sing.
Earth, put on your whitest
Bridal robe of spotless snow:
For Christmas bringeth gladness
All the world can know.