Now, Now, The Mirth Comes - The Hymns and Carols of Christmas

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“Now, Now The Mirth Comes” Tell Us, Thou Cleere And Heavenly Tongue A Caroll To The King. Sung at Whitehall. Alternate Title: The Star Song Note: This poem occurs in that section of Hesperides titled His Noble Numbers. Source: William Sandys, Christmas Carols Ancient and Modern (London: Richard Beckley, 1833) The flourish of musick; then followed the song. Tell us, thou cleere and heavenly tongue, Where is the Babe but lately sprung? Lies he the lillie-banks among? 2. Or say, if this new Birth of ours Sleeps, laid within some ark of flowers, Spangled with deaw-light; thou canst cleere All doubts, and manifest the where. 3. Declare to us, bright star, if we shall seek Him in the morning's blushing cheek, Or search the beds of spices through, To find him out? Star. No, this ye need not do; But only come and see Him rest, A princely Babe, in's mother's brest. Chor. He's seen! He's seen! why then around Let's kisse the sweet and holy ground; And all rejoyce that we have found A King, before conception, crown'd. 4. Come then, come then, and let us bring Unto our prettie twelfth-tide King, Each one his severall offering. Chor: And when night comes wee'l give him wassailing; And that his treble honours may be seen, Wee'l chuse him King, and make his mother Queen. Page 10 of 72
Note: Christmas Poetry By Robert Herrick In the text from Sandys, the first and fourth verses contained three lines; the second and third contained four lines. Sandys' Note: This [is] from Herrick's Poems, 2 vols. Edinb. 1823. Herrick was born in 1591, and the first edition of the "Hesperides" was published in 1648. Note from Joshua Sylvestre: This delightful carol is by the author of the preceding [Robert Herrick]. The concluding lines, with their allusion to wassailing, represent very well the spirit of the season in old times, -- a mixture of devotion and thankfulness, with a little worldly, yet harmless, rejoicing. Note: Hugh Keyte, an editor of The New Oxford Book of Carols (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992) believes that "Joshua Sylvestre" is a pseudonym for a collaboration between William Sandys (1792-1874) and William Henry Husk (1814-1887). See Appendix 4. Page 11 of 72
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