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Editor: Ian Haslam (submitted 2011-11-30). Score information: A4, 6 pages, 76 kB Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes:

Title: I sing the birth
Composer: Charles Hubert Hastings Parry
Lyricist: Ben Jonson

Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB

Genre: Sacred, Carol

Language: English
Instruments: Piano
Published: 1917

Description: Originally published by Novello and Company

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Original text and translations may be found at I sing the birth.

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-<poem>
-I sing the birth was born tonight,
-The Author both of life and light;
-The angels so did sound it,
-And like the ravished shepherds said,
-Who saw the light, and were afraid,
-Yet searched, and true they found it.
-The Son of God, the eternal King,
-That did us all salvation bring,
-And freed the soul from danger;
-He whom the whole world could not take,
-The Word, which heaven and earth did make,
-Was now laid in a manger.
-What comfort by Him do we win?
-Who made Himself the Prince of sin,
-To make us heirs of glory?
-To see this babe, all innocence,
-A martyr born in our defense,
-Can man forget this story?
-</poem>
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