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The Millen News
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What Child Is This?
-Sam Eades
Staff Writer
As I get older, I am
reminded of many
Christmases with my
family, as we set out on
our yearly journey to visit
my grandparents for the
holidays. We would join
in singing our favorite
Christmas songs as we
traveled down the long
two lane road toward
Thomson.
Of course we would sing
the familiar songs of
Christmas but one song
we would sing often was
“What Child is This?” As
we sang the carol, I was
fascinated with the lyrics
of the song, especially
the verse that said, “What
Child is this, who laid
to rest, On Mary's lap is
sleeping? Whom Angels
greet with anthems
sweet,While shepherds
watch are keeping?”
Even as a child, thinking
how wonderful it must
have been to have angels
singing at your birth, I
remember
asking
Mama,
why didn’t
angels sing
at all births?
Her answer
was always,
“angels do
sing when
a new child
comes into
the world.”
"What Child Is This"
was written by English
poet and lay theologian
William Chatterton Dix,
who was bom in 1837
and died in 1898. He
originally wrote it as
a poem entitled "The
Manger Throne” and
was first used as a hymn
text in Sir John Stainer's
Christmas Carols.
Mr. Dix wrote other
carols, including "As With
Gladness Men of Old"
(1859). It is unknown who
merged his lyrics and the
tune of "Greensleeves",
but quite possibly it was
John Stainer (1840-1901),
who made the harmonies.
Greensleves, is a
traditional English ballad
with an interesting history.
The earliest known
publication of this tune is
in two books of 1580, one
by Richard Jones with the
title "A new Northeme
Dittye of the Lady Greene
Sleeves",
and the
other by
Edward
White,
entitled
"A ballad,
being
the Lady
Greene
Sleeves.”
I hope that
during this
Christmas season, you
will meditate on the words
of this carol and maybe
just hear the voices of
angels singing “this, this
is Christ the King”
What Child is this who,
laid to rest
On Mary's lap is sleeping?
Whom Angels greet with
anthems sweet,
While shepherds watch
are keeping?
This, this is Christ the
King,
Whom shepherds guard
and Angels sing;
Haste, haste, to bring Him
laud,
The Babe, the Son of
Mary.
Why lies He in such mean
estate,
Where ox and ass are
feeding?
Good Christians, fear, for
sinners here
The silent Word is
pleading.
So bring Him incense,
gold and myrrh,
Come peasant, king to
own Him;
The King of kings
salvation brings,
Let loving hearts enthrone
Him.
Raise, raise a song on
high,
The Virgin sings her
lullaby.
Joy, joy for Christ is born,
The Babe, the Son of
Mary.
William Chatterton Dix
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