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No Sad Thought His Soul Affright

Season 2022-2023
Performance Date December 10, 2022
Performance Year 2022
Performance Time 7:30 PM
Additional Performances 12/11/2022, 4:00 PM
Location Northrop Auditorium, University of Minnesota, MN
Performance Title Welcome Christmas
Composer Ralph Vaughan Williams
Title Of Work Hodie
Country England
Year Composed 1954
Timing 2:45"
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VocalEssence Chorus

Text Translation

No sad thought his soul affright;
Sleep it is that maketh night;
Let no murmur nor rude wind
To his slumbers prove unkind.
But a quire of angels make
His dreams of heaven, and let him wake
To as many joys as can
In this world befall a man.
Promise fills the sky with light,
Stars and angels dance in flight;
Joy of heaven shall now unbind
Chains of evil from humankind.
Love and joy their power shall break,
And for a new born prince’s sake;
Never since the world began
Such a light such dark did span.
—Verse 1, anonymous; Verse 2, Ursula Wood

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