Before The Marvel Of This Night (PDF)
Before The Marvel Of This Night is choral work with organ, strings, and harp. It makes an excellent pairing with Benjamin Britten’s Ceremony of Carols at Christmas time. Listen to the recording below!
Listen to “Before The Marvel Of This Night” sung by the choir of St. Peter’s Episcopal Church.
Before the marvel of this night
Choir, Organ, Strings, and Harp
This is an excellent choice for a Christmas concert or Christmas prelude.
Before the marvel of this night, adoring, fold your wings and bow,
Then tear the sky apart with light, and with your news the world endow.
Proclaim the birth of Christ and peace, that fear and death and sorrow cease:
Sing peace, sing peace, sing gift of peace, sing peace, sing gift of peace!
Awake the sleeping world with song, this is the day the Lord has made.
Assemble here, celestial throng, in royal splendor come arrayed.
Give earth a glimpse of heav’nly bliss, a teasing taste of what they miss:
Sing bliss, sing bliss, sing endless bliss, sing bliss, sing endless bliss!
The love that we have always known, our constant joy and endless light,
Now to the loveless world be shown, now break upon its deathly night.
Into one song compress the love that rules our universe above:
Sing love, sing love, sing God is love, sing love, sing God is love!