"The Burning Babe" lyrics - STING
As I in hoary winter's night
Stood shivering in the snow,
Surprised I was with sudden heat
Which made my heart to glow;
And lifting up a fearful eye
To view what fire was near,
A pretty babe all burning bright
Did in the air appear;
Who, scorched with excessive heat,
Such floods of tears did shed,
As though His floods should quench His flames,
Which with His tears were bred:
'Alas!' quoth He, 'but newly born
In fiery heats I fry,
Yet none approach to warm their hearts
Or feel my fire but I!
'My faultless breast the furnace is;
The fuel, wounding thorns;
Love is the fire, and sighs the smoke;
The ashes, shames and scorns;
The fuel Justice layeth on,
And Mercy blows the coals,
The metal in this furnace wrought
Are men's defiled souls:
For which, as now on fire I am
To work them to their good,
So will I melt into a bath,
To wash them in my blood.'
With this He vanish'd out of sight
And swiftly shrunk away,
And straight I called unto mind
That it was Christmas Day.
If On A Winter's Night... (2009)
- Gabriel's Message
- Soul Cake
- There Is No Rose Of Such Virtue
- The Snow It Melts The Soonest
- Christmas At Sea
- Lo How A Rose E'er Blooming
- Cold Song
- The Burning Babe
- Now Winter Comes Slowly
- The Hounds Of Winter
- Balulalow
- Cherry Tree Carol
- Lullaby For An Anxious Child
- Hurdy Gurdy Man
- You Only Cross My Mind In Winter
- Bethlehem Down
- A Cradle Song