Now Let Us Sing (Gustav Holst)
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- Editor: Douglas Walczak (added 2002-10-04). Score information: A4, 4 pages, 100 kbytes Copyright: Personal
- Edition notes: public domain in US, for US distribution only.
- UPDATE: Holst's works are now out of copyright in the UK and possibly other European countries as well. Please refer to this page for more information.
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General Information
Title: Now Let Us Sing
Composer: Gustav Holst
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Soloists: ATB
Genre: Sacred, Carol
Language: English
Instruments: Organ
Published:
Description: #2 of 'Four Old English Carols' - for others see (here).
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Original text and translations
English text
- 1.
- Now let us sing with joy and mirth,
- In honor of our Lordes birth,
- His love and His humanity,
- That gave Himself for us to die.
- By Adam we were all forlorn,
- But now Christ Jesus to us born,
- Has freed us from captivity,
- And vanquished has our enemy.
- The angles sang with merriness,
- Unto the shepherds more or less,
- and bade them of good comfort be,
- For Christes new nativity,
- For Christes new nativity,
- For Christes new nativity.
- 2.
- For you were all by sin forlorn.
- This babe to you that now is born
- Shall make you safe and for you die,
- And you restore to liberty.
- This babe for you did shed his blood,
- And suffered death upon the rood,
- And for His great humanity,
- Exalted is His majesty.
- And now He is our advocate,
- He us both aire and late,
- This can the scripture verify,
- So far is any man is He,
- So far is any man is He,
- So far is any man is He.
