Most Holy Night (Jennifer Bastable)

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• (Posted 2025-08-28)  CPDL #86547:       

Editor: Jennifer Bastable (submitted 2025-08-28).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 404 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: Most Holy Night
Composer: Jennifer Bastable
Lyricist: Hilaire Belloc
Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: SSATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published:
Description: A setting for SSATB of Hilaire Belloc's poem The Night.

Original text and translations

English text

Most Holy Night, that still dost keep
The keys of all the doors of sleep,
To me when my tired eyelids close
   Give thou repose.

And let the far lament of them
That chant the dead day’s requiem
Make in my ears, who wakeful lie,
   Soft lullaby.

Let them that guard the hornèd Moon
By my bedside their memories croon.
So shall I have new dreams and blest
   In my brief rest.

Fold thy great wings about my face,
Hide day-dawn from my resting-place,
And cheat me with thy false delight,
   Most Holy Night.