What Child Is This? Lyrics

The winter season of the yearWhen to this world Our Lord was bornThe ox and donkey, so they say,Did keep His Holy Presence warm.How many oxen and donkeys nowIf they were there when...Read Full Lyrics

There are great puddles of blood on the worldWhere is it all going? All this spilled blood?Is it the earth that drinks it and gets drunk?Funny kind of drunkography then, so wise, s...Read Full Lyrics

I have shut my balconyBecause I do not want to hear the weepingBut from behind the gray wallsNothing else is heard but the weepingThere are very few angels that singThere are very ...Read Full Lyrics

Of the dark pastA child is bornWith joy and griefMy heart is tornCalm in his cradleThe living liesMay love and mercyUnclose his eyes!Young life is breathedOn the glassThe world tha...Read Full Lyrics

I wander through each chartered streetNear where the chartered Thames does flowAnd mark in every face I meetMarks of weakness, marks of woeIn every cry of every manIn every infant'...Read Full Lyrics

Who murdered the minutesThe bright, golden minutesThe minutes of youth?I, said the soldier, dressed in his red coatI with my trumpet, my sword and my flagI murdered the minutesI to...Read Full Lyrics

Oh, little child, see how the flowerYou pluck bleeds on the iron groundBend down, your ears may catch its voiceA passionless, low sobbing soundOh, man, put up your sword and seeThe...Read Full Lyrics

Once upon a time and a very good time it wasThere was a moocow coming down along the roadAnd this moocow that was down along the roadMet a nicens little boy named baby tuckooHis fa...Read Full Lyrics

In the woods there is a birdHis song stops you and makes you blushThere is a clock that never strikesThere is a swamp with a nest of white beastsThere is a cathedral that goes down...Read Full Lyrics

The wood is full of shining eyesThe wood is full of creeping feetThe wood is full of tiny criesYou must not go to the wood at night!I met a man with eyes of glassAnd a finger as cu...Read Full Lyrics