Whence comes this Light (Herbert Brewer)
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- Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2022-07-23). Score information: A4, 2 pages, 68 kB Copyright: CPDL
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Title: Whence comes this Light
Composer: Herbert Brewer
Lyricist: Millicent Wedmore
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Carol
Language: English
Instruments: Piano
First published: 1903 The Musical Times
Description: To Miss Muriel Pickup
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Original text and translations
English text
1 Whence comes this light on the world that shines?
(Ecce Gloria Domini)
More bright than gold from a thousand mines
Or sunshine that yellows the autumn vines
Is the herald of Christ's Nativity.
Template:Vs!2 What means this sound as of rushing wings
(Ecce Gloria Domini)
This sudden joy in the soul that springs?
Make way, for he cometh, the King of Kings,
He cometh to his Nativity!
3 "God cometh as Man," saith his Mother mild,
(Ecce Gloria Domini)
"From the radiant heavens He stooped and smiled
Through the eyes of a tender and helpless child
On this day of His great Nativity."