Sing Nowell

Song Cycle by Bernard James Naylor (1907 - 1986)

?. Ecce puer  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: English 
Of the dark past
A child is born;
With joy and grief
My heart is torn. 

Calm in his cradle
The living lies. 
May love and mercy
Unclose his eyes! 

Young life is breathed
On the glass;
The world that was not
Comes to pass. 

A child is sleeping:
An old man gone. 
O, father forsaken,
Fogive your son!

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First published in New Republic, November 1932

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
Total word count: 59