For church choir and organ
Duration: c.4 min
2005
First performance: 27th November 2005, Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford;
Christ Church Cathedral Choir dir. Stephen Darlington
Commissioned by the Choir & Organ magazine
Text taken from ‘On the Nativity of Christ’ by William Dunbar (c. 1460-c.1520)
Hevins distill your balmy schouris,
For now is rissin the brycht day ster
Fro the ros Mary, flour of flouris.
The cleir Sone quhome no clud devouris,
Surminting Phebus in the est
Is cumin of His hevinly touris;
Et nobis puer natus est
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