All This TimeAll this time this song is best:
'Verbum caro factum est.'
This night there is a child yborn
That sprang out of Jesse's thorn
We must sing and say thereforn,
All this time...
Jesus is the childes name,
Christmas EveChristmas hath a darkness
Brighter than the blazing moon,
Christmas hath a chillness
Warmer than the heat of June,
Christmas hath a beauty
Lovelier than the world can show:
For Christmas bringeth Jesus,
Brought for us so low.
Of a RoseListen, lordynges, old and yonge,
How this rose began to sprynge
Such a rose to mine lykynge
In all this world ne knowe I non.
Alleluia.
The aungel came fro hevene tour
To greet Marye with gret honour,
Pilgrim JesusJesus! Christus! Jesus! Natus!
In the manger of my body
Leaps the tiny child, and his breath
Is the word - the dance of God.
Corpus! Beatus! Peregrinus! Natus!
In the ocean of my head
The steadfast ship rides tide and storm
Song for AtheneAlleluia. May flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.
Alleluia. Remember me, O Lord, when you come into your kingdom.
Alleluia. Give rest, O Lord, to your handmaid who has fallen asleep.
Alleluia. The Choir of Saints have found the well-spring of life and door of paradise.
Alleluia. Life: a shadow and a dream.
Alleluia. Weeping at the grave creates the song:
Alleluia. Come, enjoy rewards and crowns I have prepared for you.
Tune Thy MusicTune thy Music to thy heart,
Sing thy joy with thanks, and so thy sorrow:
Though Devotion needs not Art,
Sometimes of the poor the rich may borrow.
Strive not yet for curious ways:
Concord pleaseth more, the less ʼtis strained
Zeal affects not outward praise,
Victimae paschali laudesVictimae paschali laudes immolent Christiani.
Agnus redemit oves:
Christus innocens
Patri reconciliavit peccatores.
Mors et vita duello conflixere mirando:
dux vitae mortuus, regnat vivus.
Dic nobis Maria, quid vidisti in via?
Sepulchrum Christi viventis,