A christmas carol (Cripps, set by A. Bliss) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


Come browse, my goats, Christ's manger hay,
Come, browse, in Christmas peace and love -
Ye that on Summer's green hills stray,
Or by her rain-flushed river rove!
"We fear to browse": my brown goats say,
"A white dog snarls Christ's bed above -
White dog with four flesh-meals a day -
He likes it not that goats he drove
Should munch God's meal.
He will not move."

Input by Ted Perry

Authorship

Arthur Shearley Cripps (1869-1952)

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

Arthur Edward Drummond Bliss, Sir (1891-1975)

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