I sing the birth

Ben Johnson (1573-1637) C.H.H. Parry (1848-1918)

q = 84
        
f
   
  
            
        
                

   
1. I sing the birth was born to - night, the au - thor both of

 

      
      
           


                 
  

f


 
4
  p

     
                      
      
life and light; the an - gels so did sound it, and

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                      


      


p

 p cresc. 
     
f cresc. poco rit.

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  
   
      
   
               


searched, yet searched, yet
like the ra - vish'd shep - herds said, who saw the light, and were a fraid, yet

      
Yet searched, yet searched, yet

   
 
 
          
                   

f cresc.  mp cresc.

f
           
10

   
f
    
      
searched,and true they found it, and true they found it. 2. The

    
searched, and true they found it, and true they found it. 2. The
     
                
 
f
2

      
13

p

      
                             

 
Son of God the e - ter - nal King, that did us all sal -


Son of God the e - ter - nal King,
            
          
              
  
p

 
16
  mf

                            
  
-
va - tion bring, and freed the soul from dan - ger; he

        

     
                    
 
   
mf

 p
  
19 cresc.

              

   

whom the whole world could not take, the Word which heav'n and earth did make, was

  
    
    
       
     
 
 
cresc.

    
           p
21

  
          

      

now, was now, was now laid in a man - ger, laid in a man - ger. 3. What

                
was now, was now, was now laid in a man - ger, laid in a man - ger.

  
           
       
mp p
 3


meno mosso
      
25 p

        
                             
  
com - fort by Him do we win, who made Him - self the

                   
               
    
 
p meno mosso


mp allargando
 
cresc. molto
 p
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
                           

  
price of sin, to make us heirs of glo - ry? To


  
                      
      
 
p
mp cresc. molto allargando


a tempo

p
  
         
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
cresc. cresc.
  
      
  
           


see the Babe, all in - no - cence, A Mar- tyr born in our de - fence!Can man, can man, can


  
Can man, can man, can

   
 
      
         
                   

cresc.  mp cresc.

f
        
34

          
    

man for - get this sto - ry, for - get this sto - - ry?

   
man for - get this sto - ry, for - get this sto - ry?

          
         
   
f