A Winter Carol

Gilbert M. Martin (b. 1941)

Text Thomas L. Lynch

A thousand years have come and gone and near a thousand more
Since happier light from heaven shone than ever shone before;
And in the hearts of old and young a joy most joyful stirred,
That sent such news from tongue to tongue as ears had never heard.

Come all, rejoice, come all and sing, as in the days of yore;
Come all, and hearts make ready bring to welcome back once more
The day when first on wintry earth a summer change befell
And, dawning in a lowly birth, our God, Emmanuel.