A Christmussy Confusion of Carols
For 2006
The world in solemn stillness lay
Come and worship night and day,
With a mangerful of hay;
Free from woe and danger.
"What can I give him?" thronged the air,
Beset with gold and jewels rare,
"May we stroke the creatures there;
Poor and in a manger?"
Hark the herald angels sing,
All our costliest treasures bring,
Come swiftly on the wing;
To see the little stranger.
O! Strange indifference - low and high,
The earth was still but knew not why,
A number of angels stood in the sky;
But not a mountain ranger.