All This Time
William Walton
All this time this song is best:
'Verbum caro factum est.'
This night there is a child yborn
That sprang out of Jesse's thorn
We must sing and say thereforn,
All this time...
Jesus is the childes name,
And Mary mild is his dame
All our sorrow shall turn to game:
All this time...
It fell upon high midnight:
The starres shone both fair and bright
The angels sang with all their might.
All this time...
Now kneel we down on our knee,
And pray we to the Trinity
Our help, our succour for to be
All this time...