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CPDL #15297 (Orchestral version)
- Editor: Huub de Lange (submitted 2007-10-31). Score information: A4, 30 pages, 404 kbytes Copyright: Personal
- Edition notes: The MP3 file is a synthesized realisation of the music which is slightly better than the MIDI.
CPDL #17884 (Piano 4 hands version)
- Editor: Huub de Lange (submitted 2008-08-07). Score information: A4, 31 pages, kbytes Copyright: Personal
General Information
Title: A Christmas Hymn
Composer: Huub de Lange
Lyricist: Richard Wilbur
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Carol
Language: English
Orchestration: Chamber orchestra and Piano (4 hands)
Published: 2007
Description: Composition on a poem by Richard Wilbur. See also Four Wilbur Songs. Permission has been granted by the poet for his poem to be set to music.
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Original text and translations
English text
- A stable-lamp is lighted
- Whose glow shall wake the sky;
- The stars shall bend their voices,
- And every stone shall cry.
- And every stone shall cry,
- And straw like gold shall shine;
- A barn shall harbor heaven,
- A stall become a shrine.
- This child through David’s city
- Shall ride in triumph by;
- The palm shall strew its branches,
- And every stone shall cry.
- And every stone shall cry,
- Though heavy, dull, and dumb,
- And lie within the roadway
- To pave His kingdom come.
- Yet He shall be forsaken,
- And yielded up to die;
- The sky shall groan and darken,
- And every stone shall cry.
- And every stone shall cry
- For stony hearts of men:
- God’s blood upon the spearhead,
- God’s love refused again.
- But now, as at the ending,
- The low is lifted high;
- The stars shall bend their voices,
- And every stone shall cry.
- And every stone shall cry
- In praises of the child
- By whose descent among us
- The worlds are reconciled.