Choral Choir (Unison) - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1254455 Composed by Nicholas White. 21st Century,Christian,Christmas,Historic,Renaissance. Octavo. 12 pages. Nicholas White Music #848027. Published by Nicholas White Music (A0.1254455). A dramatic setting of John Donne's Annunciation and Nativity for solo soprano or unison treble chorus and organ or strings. Also available for countertenor/alto.John Donne (1572-1631)AnnunciationSalvation to all that will is nigh;That All, which always is all everywhere,Which cannot sin, and yet all sins must bear,Which cannot die, yet cannot choose but die,Lo, faithful virgin, yields Himself to lieIn prison, in thy womb; and though He thereCan take no sin, nor thou give, yet He will wear,Taken from thence, flesh, which death's force may try.Ere by the spheres time was created, thouWast in His mind, who is thy Son and Brother;Whom thou conceivst, conceived; yea thou art nowThy Maker's maker, and thy Father's mother;Thou hast light in dark, and shutst in little room,Immensity cloistered in thy dear womb. NativityImmensity cloistered in thy dear womb,Now leaves His well-belov'd imprisonment,There He hath made Himself to His intentWeak enough, now into the world to come;But O, for thee, for Him, hath the inn no room?Yet lay Him in this stall, and from the Orient,Stars and wise men will travel to preventThe effect of Herod's jealous general doom.Seest thou, my soul, with thy faith's eyes, how HeWhich fills all place, yet none holds Him, doth lie?Was not His pity towards thee wondrous high,That would have need to be pitied by thee?Kiss Him, and with Him into Egypt go,With His kind mother, who partakes thy woe.
