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This Little Babe

from A Winter Rose by Boydell Singers

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from ‘Ceremony of Carols’

Michaelmas Term Concert
Trinity College Chapel
Academic Year 2012/2013

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(Text: Robert Southwell 1561-1595)

This little Babe so few days old is come to rifle Satan's fold;
All hell doth at his presence quake though he himself for cold do shake;
For in this weak unarmèd wise the gates of hell he will surprise.

With tears he fights and wins the field, his naked breast stands for a shield;
His battering shot are babish cries, his arrows looks of weeping eyes,
His martial ensigns Cold and Need and feeble Flesh his warrior's steed.

His camp is pitchèd in a stall, his bulwark but a broken wall;
The crib his trench, haystacks his stakes; of shepherds he his muster makes;
And thus, as sure his foe to wound, the angels' trump alarum sound.

My soul, with Christ join thou in fight, stick to the tents that he hath pight.
Within his crib is surest ward, this little Babe will be thy guard.
If thou wilt foil thy foes with joy, then flit not from this heavenly Boy

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from A Winter Rose, released July 12, 2012
Composer: Benjamin Britten
Conductor: Niamh Nic Uileagóid
Recording: Rob Kearns

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Trinity College Singers Dublin, Ireland

Founded in 1948, Trinity College Singers is a student-run choral society made up of four choirs; Trinity Singers, Boydell Singers, Trinity Belles, and the Trinitones.

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