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The Praise of Christmas
Author: Tom Durfey (1653-1723) Hymnal: OBC1928 #5 (1928) Person Name: Tom Durfey (1653-1723) First Line: All hail to the days that merit more praise Lyrics: All hail to the days that merit more praise
Than all the rest of the year,
And welcome the nights that double delights,
As well for the poor as the peer!
Good fortune attend each merry man's friend,
That doth but the best that he may;
Forgetting old wrongs, with carols and songs,
To drive the cold winter away.
2 ’Tis ill for a mind to anger inclined
To think of small injuries now;
If wrath be to seek, do not lend her thy cheek,
Nor let her inhabit thy brow.
Cross out of thy books malevolent looks,
Both beauty and youth's decay,
And wholly consort with mirth and with sport,
To drive the cold winter away.
3 This time of the year is spent in good cheer,
And neighbors together do meet,
To sit by the fire, with friendly desire,
Each other in love do greet;
Old grudges forgot, are put in the pot,
All sorrows aside they lay,
The old and the young doth carol his song,
To drive the cold winter away.
4 When Christmas's tide comes in like a bride,
With holly and ivy clad,
Twelve days in the year, much mirth and good cheer,
In every household is had;
The country guise is then to devise
Some gambols of Christmas play,
Whereat the young men do best that they can,
To drive the cold winter away. Topics: Advent; Christmas Tune Title: [All hail to the days that merit more praise]]
The Praise of Christmas
Dark the Night
Author: Rev. W. Lloyd; Canon Owen Jones Hymnal: OBC1928 #9 (1928) Person Name: Rev. W. Lloyd First Line: Dark the night lay, wild and dreary Languages: English Tune Title: [Dark the night lay, wild and dreary]
Dark the Night
Somerset Carol
Hymnal: OBC1928 #8 (1928) Person Name: Martin Shaw First Line: Come all you worthy gentlemen Tune Title: [Come all you worthy gentlemen]
Somerset Carol
Hereford Carol
Hymnal: OBC1928 #7 (1928) Person Name: R. V. W. First Line: Come all you faithful Christians Tune Title: [Come all you faithful Christians]
Hereford Carol
Irish Carol
Author: Bishop Luke Wadding (1588-1687) Hymnal: OBC1928 #6 (1928) Person Name: Bishop Luke Wadding (1588-1687) First Line: Christmas Day is come; let's all prepare for mirth Lyrics: Christmas Day is come; let's all prepare for mirth,
Which fills the heavens and earth at this amazing birth.
Through both the joyous angels, in strife and hurry fly,
With glory and Hosannas, 'All Holy' do they cry.
In Heaven the Church triumphant adores with all her choirs,
The militant on earth with humble faith admires.
2 But why should we rejoice? Should we not rather mourn
To see the Hope of Nations thus in a stable born?
Where are his crown and sceptre, where is his throne sublime,
Where is his train majestic that should the stars outshine?
Is there no sumptuous palace nor any inn at all
To lodge his heavenly mother but in a filthy stall?
3 Oh! cease, ye blessed angels, such clamorous joys to make!
Though midnight silence favours, the Shepherds are awake;
And you, O glorious star! that with new splendour brings
From the remotest parts three learned eastern Kings,
Turn somewhere else your lustre, your rays elsewhere display;
For Herod he may slay the babe, and Christ must straight away.
4 If we would rejoice, let's cancel the old score,
And, purposing amendment, resolve to sin no more—
For mirth can ne’er content us, without a conscience clear;
And thus we'll find true pleasure in all the usual cheer,
In dancing, sporting, revelling, with masquerade and drum;
So let our Christmas merry be, as Christians doth become. Topics: Christmas Tune Title: [Christmas Day is come; let's all prepare for mirth]
Irish Carol
