Long the Night (arr. Massey) — Hereford Cathedral Choir
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The Choir of Hereford Cathedral, under the direction of Roy Massey, perform Massey's transcription and arrangement of 'Long the Night,' a haunting Ukranian melody paired with Alick Rowe's poem of the same name. Rowe's text, which finds Mary and the infant Jesus at the Nativity, simultaneously anticipates the Crucifixion, juxtaposing birth and death in the hands and feet that Mary kisses— hands and feet that will inevitably be punctured by iron nails.
Treble solo performed by Matthew Pochin.
[ Text ]
Long the night but kind the dawn
In Bethlehem where her son was born.
She touched his side and stroked his head
As she gently laid him to bed.
She held his hands, she kissed his feet,
She sang to see a sight so sweet:
In excelsis gloria.
In the hills the iron lay
What men would beat into nails one day,
Where the thorn tree roots go down
That men would twist to a crown.
In the wood where an axe would ring
To cut a cross that would bear a king,
Mary's voice rose from afar:
In excelsis gloria.
[ Recording available on the disk 'Christmas Carols,' (Griffin 1997). ]
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