A day a day of glory (arr Wood)
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| Music: | Anonymous | |
| Arranger: | Charles Wood | |
| Voicing: | SATB | |
| Words: | John Mason Neale |
A day, a day of glory!
A day that ends our woe!
A day that tells of triumph
A day that tells of triumph
against our vanquished foe!
Yield, summer’s brightest sunrise,
Yield, summer’s brightest sunrise,
to this December morn:
Lift up your gates, ye princes,
Lift up your gates, ye princes,
and let the child be born!
With Gloria in excelsis
With Gloria in excelsis
Archangels tell their mirth:
with Kyrie eleison
men answer upon earth:
and angels swell the triumph,
and mortals raise the horn,
Lift up your gates, ye princes,
and let the child be born.
He comes, His throne the manger;
he comes, His shrine the stall;
the ox and ass His courtiers,
who made and governs all:
the “House of Bread”* his birth-place,
the Prince of wine and corn:
Lift up your gates, ye princes,
and let the child be born.
Then bar the gates, that henceforth
none thus may passage win,
because the Prince of Israel
alone hath entered in:
The earth, the sky, the ocean
his glorious way adorn:
Lift up your gates, ye princes,
and let the child be born.
with Kyrie eleison
men answer upon earth:
and angels swell the triumph,
and mortals raise the horn,
Lift up your gates, ye princes,
and let the child be born.
He comes, His throne the manger;
he comes, His shrine the stall;
the ox and ass His courtiers,
who made and governs all:
the “House of Bread”* his birth-place,
the Prince of wine and corn:
Lift up your gates, ye princes,
and let the child be born.
Then bar the gates, that henceforth
none thus may passage win,
because the Prince of Israel
alone hath entered in:
The earth, the sky, the ocean
his glorious way adorn:
Lift up your gates, ye princes,
and let the child be born.
* The old Hebrew name bêth lehem, meaning "house of bread", has survived
till the present day. In its Arabic form, however, bêt lahm, it means
"house of meat". Several scholars (Smith, Hist. Geog. of the Holy Land,
1906) hold that the name is connected with Lakhmu, one of the divinities
in the Babylonian Creation myth and that Bethlehem was a sacred shrine
of that god in ancient times. This is possible, but there is no actual
evidence in favour of the conjecture. Two cities of the name are known
from Sacred Scripture: Bethlehem and Bethlehem of Judea.
From the
Catholic Encyclopedia.
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