Quelle est cette odeur agréable - Where is that goodly fragrance flowing (arr Mather)

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Music:		Traditional French
Arranger:		R. Mather
Voicing:		SATB
Words:		Traditional French, and English words loosely translated by R. Mather

French

Quelle est cette odeur agréable,
  Bergers, qui ravit tous nos sens?
S’exhale t’il rien de semblable
Au milieu des fleurs du printemps?
Quelle est cette odeur agréable
  Bergers, qui ravit tous nos sens?

Mais quelle éclatante lumière
  Dans la nuit vient frapper nos yeux
L’astre de jour, dans sa carrière,
  Futil jamais si radieux!
Mais quelle éclatante lumière
  Dans la nuit vient frapper nos yeux.

A Bethléem, dans une crèche
Il vient de vous naitre-un Sauveur
Allons, que rien ne vous empâche
  D’adorer votre redémpteur
A Bethléem, dans une crèche,
Il vient de vous naître-un Sauveur.

Dieu tout puissant, gloire éternelle
  Vous soit rendue jusqu’aux cieux.
Que la paix soit universelle
  Que la grace a bonde en tous lieux.
Dieu tout puissant, gloire éternelle
  Vous soit rendue jusqu’aux cieux

English

Where is that goodly fragrance flowing
  to steal the senses all away?
adorns the air, and nothing like it
  the shepherds sensed in fields in May?
Where is that goodly fragrance flowing
  to steal the senses all away?

A light so bright, a beam so piercing
  it turns our darkness into day.
The light of Christ, it is so radiant,
  the beam it casts to be our way.
A light so bright, a beam so piercing
  it turns our darkness into day.

Shepherds to Bethlehem, go hasten!
  And in a manger see him lay.
Adore your God and your redeemer;
  Saviour of all to win the day
Shepherds to Bethlehem, go hasten!
  And in a manger see him lay.

All pow’rful God, and King eternal,
  The heavens praise with one accord.
Grace, peace and truth give to all nations
  Spring forth from Jesus Christ our Lord.
All pow’rful God, and King eternal,
  The heavens praise with one accord.

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Where is that goodly fragrance flowing

Quelle est cette odeur - arr Mather

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Prima Prattica Ensemble

Pro Musica. Wellington Square United Church, Burlington, Ontario, Canada

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