From the album Christmas Joy – Beloved Carols for Church and Singers, also available on CD.
In The Bleak Midwinter : Recording
- Tune: Cranham, composed by Gustav Theodore Holst (1874-1934). Public Domain.
- Performance Copyright ℗ 2021 Richard Irwin Music®. ISRC UKTU21900401. All rights reserved.
In The Bleak Midwinter : Lyrics
In the bleak midwinter, frosty wind made moan,
earth stood hard as iron, water like a stone;
snow had fallen, snow on snow, snow on snow,
in the bleak midwinter, long ago.
Our God, heaven cannot hold him, nor earth sustain;
heaven and earth shall flee away when he comes to reign.
In the bleak midwinter a stable place sufficed
the Lord God Almighty, Jesus Christ.
Enough for him, whom cherubim worship night and day,
A breastful of milk, and a manger full of hay:
Enough for him, whom angels fall down before,
The ox and as and camel which adore.
Angels and archangels may have gathered there,
cherubim and seraphim thronged the air;
but his mother only, in her maiden bliss,
worshipped the beloved with a kiss.
What can I give him, poor as I am?
If I were a shepherd, I would bring a lamb;
if I were a wise man, I would do my part;
yet what I can I give him: give my heart.
- Lyricist: Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830-1894). Public Domain.
- Meter: Irregular.
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