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- Editor: Huub de Lange (submitted 2008-08-07). Score information: A4, 25 pages, 742 kB Copyright: Personal
- Edition notes: The MP3 files are a synthesized realisation of the music.
- Editor: Huub de Lange (submitted 2007-10-31). Score information: A4, 49 pages, 1.05 MB Copyright: Personal
- Edition notes: The MP3 files are a synthesized realisation of the music.
General Information
Title: A Christmas Hymn
Composer: Huub de Lange
Lyricist: Richard Wilbur
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Carol
Language: English
Instruments: 2 Piano 4-hands
First published: 2007
2nd published: 2008
Description: Number 4 of Christmas Songs. For more choral settings by Huub de Lange of poems by Richard Wilbur see Four Wilbur Songs and Riddle.
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Original text and translations
English text
A stable-lamp is lighted
Whose glow shall wake the sky;
The stars shall bend their voices,
And every stone shall cry.
And every stone shall cry,
And straw like gold shall shine;
A barn shall harbor heaven,
A stall become a shrine.
This child through David’s city
Shall ride in triumph by;
The palm shall strew its branches,
And every stone shall cry.
And every stone shall cry,
Though heavy, dull, and dumb,
And lie within the roadway
To pave His kingdom come.
Yet He shall be forsaken,
And yielded up to die;
The sky shall groan and darken,
And every stone shall cry.
And every stone shall cry
For stony hearts of men:
God’s blood upon the spearhead,
God’s love refused again.
But now, as at the ending,
The low is lifted high;
The stars shall bend their voices,
And every stone shall cry.
And every stone shall cry
In praises of the child
By whose descent among us
The worlds are reconciled.