Do they bring glad tidings At the Feast of Christmas, ever let us sing, ""Tis indeed a Monarch Whose high praise is sung And proclaim to men, That their King has brought them At the Feast of Christmas, ever let us sing, "Let us swell His triumph, And His coming greet, Say, where shall we find Him? Where this Monarch meet? Let us hasten onwards To His palace gate. There with shouts salute Him Mid the rich and great." At the Feast of Christmas, ever let us sing, Four-Part Song.. "King Witlaf's Drinking Horn." SUNG BY FORMER MEMBERS OF THE CHOIR. Witlaf, a King of the Saxons, Ere yet his last he breath'd, .. Hatton That, whenever they sat at their revels, And drank from the golden bowl, They might remember the donor, And breathe a prayer for his soul. So sat they once at Christmas, And bade the goblet pass; In their beards the red wine glisten'd They drank to the saints and martyrs, And as soon as the horn was empty, Till the great bells of the Convent Guthlac and Bartholomæus, Proclaim'd the midnight hour. And the yule-log cracked in the chimney, And the Abbot bow'd his head, And the flamelets flapp'd and flicker'd, But the Abbot was stark and dead! Yet still in his pallid fingers He clutch'd the golden bowl, In which, like a pearl dissolving, Had sunk and dissolv'd his soul. But not for this their revels, The jovial monks forbore; For they cried, "Fill high the goblet! We must drink to one saint more. Finale...." CARMEN MARLBURIENSE." Words by the REV. C. W. MOULE, M.A., Fellow of 1 Libros chartas! aufer talia! 2 Liberi sed îdem sani SUNG BY THE SCHOOL. Sacrum Carmen instauramus : 3 Urbem lautam nil morämur; 4 Nec juventas est pudori; 5 Latericii num sint muri 6 Quem virum (sed ipse scio) 7 Suam laudem da Togatis: 8 Vivat vis Pedariorum! 9 Prisca Nova! Domus clarae Scitis et vos decertare; Sin quaeratur "praestet utra," Music by W. Schulthes. 5 Though brick is plain and marble rich, 6 Say, Clio, whom (but none can doubt) 7 With him the masters' conclave bless; 8 Be strong, Elevens, to bowl and shoot: 9 Nor, famous Houses, Old and New, Rise, &c. SUNG BY THE SCHOOL. God save our gracious Queen, God save the Queen. O Lord our God arise, And make them fall; Thy choicest gifts in store, God save the Queen. [LUCY & CO., PRINTERS, MARLBorough. |