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Here is the little door (Herbert Howells)
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Title: Here is the Little Door
Composer: Herbert Howells
Lyricist: Frances Chestertoncreate page
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Carol
Language: English
Instruments: a cappella
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Original text and translations
English text
- 1.
- Here is the little door,
- lift up the latch, oh lift!
- We need not wander more,
- but enter with our gift;
- Our gift of finest gold.
- Gold that was never bought or sold;
- Myrrh to be strewn about his bed;
- Incense in clouds about His head;
- All for the child that stirs not in His sleep,
- But holy slumber hold with ass and sheep.
- 2.
- Bend low about His bed,
- For each He has a gift;
- See how His eyes awake,
- Lift up your hands, O lift!
- For gold, He gives a keen-edged sword.
- (Defend with it thy little Lord!)
- For incense, smoke of battle red,
- Myrrh for the honored happy dead;
- Gifts for His children, terrible and sweet;
- Touched by such tiny hands,
- and Oh such tiny feet.
