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That Youngë Child - Britten

From A Ceremony of Carols, Op. 28
Written: 1942
Performed by: The Choir of King's College, Cambridge
Released by: EMI Classics


That youngë child, when it gan weep,
With song she lullèd Him asleep.
That was so sweet a melody
It passeth alle minstrellsy.

The nightingäle sang also;
Her song is hoarse, and naught thereto.
Whoso attendeth to her song
And leaveth the first, then doth he wrong.