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Loreena McKennitt - Good King Wenceslas Lyrics

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  • (lyrics by John Mason Neale)
  • Good King Wenceslas looked out
  • On the Feast of Stephen
  • When the snow lay 'round about
  • Deep and crisp and even
  • Brightly shone the moon that night
  • Though the frost was cruel
  • When a poor man came in sight
  • Gath'ring winter fuel
  • "Hither, page, and stand by me,
  • If thou know'st it, telling
  • Yonder peasant, who is he?
  • Where and what his dwelling?"
  • "Sire, he lives a good league hence,
  • Underneath the mountain
  • Right against the forest fence
  • By Saint Agnes' fountain."
  • "Bring me flesh and bring me wine
  • Bring me pine logs hither
  • Thou and I shall see him dine
  • When we bear them thither."
  • Page and monarch, forth they went
  • Forth they went together
  • Through the rude wind's wild lament
  • And the bitter weather
  • "Sire, the night is darker now
  • And the wind blows stronger
  • Fails my heart, I know not how
  • I can go no longer."
  • "Mark my footsteps, good my page
  • Tread thou in them boldly
  • Thou shall find the winter's rage
  • Freeze thy blood less coldly."
  • In his master's step he trod
  • Where the snow lay dinted
  • Heat was in the very sod
  • Which the Saint had printed
  • Therefore, Christian men, be sure
  • Wealth or rank possessing
  • Ye, who now will bless the poor
  • Shall yourselves find blessing.

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