“You
express – when you sing – your soul in song.” – John Rutter (From
“The Importance of Choir.”)
Born in 1945, Rutter
is an English composer, conductor, editor, arranger and record producer, renowned
for his Christmas and other Sacred compositions. Genius, Rutter said, carries with it the ability to transform lives. Rutter's own genius comes to the world through his music and the words he writes to accompany it. For
Saturday’s Poem and to usher in Christmas, here is this modest composer's beautiful Candlelight Carol.
(And
check out the song’s performance on the link at the end. You will not be disappointed.)
How
do you capture the wind on the water?
How do you count all the stars in the sky?
How do you measure the love of a mother
Or how can you write down a baby's first cry?
How do you count all the stars in the sky?
How do you measure the love of a mother
Or how can you write down a baby's first cry?
Candlelight,
angel light, firelight and star-glow
Shine on his cradle till breaking of dawn
Gloria, Gloria, in excelsis deo
Shine on his cradle till breaking of dawn
Gloria, Gloria, in excelsis deo
Angels
are singing; the Christ child is born
Shepherds and wise men will kneel and adore him
Seraphim round him their vigil will keep
Nations proclaim him their Lord and their Savior
But Mary will hold him and sing him to sleep.
Shepherds and wise men will kneel and adore him
Seraphim round him their vigil will keep
Nations proclaim him their Lord and their Savior
But Mary will hold him and sing him to sleep.
Candlelight,
angel light, firelight and star-glow
Shine on his cradle till breaking of dawn
Gloria, Gloria, in excelsis deo
Shine on his cradle till breaking of dawn
Gloria, Gloria, in excelsis deo
Angels are singing;
the Christ child is born
Christ our Redeemer asleep in the hay
Godhead incarnate and hope of salvation
A child with his mother that first Christmas Day
Shine on his cradle till breaking of dawn
Gloria, Gloria, in excelsis deo
Angels are singing;
the Christ child is born
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