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Advent Festival of Carols and Lessons |
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This goes to Number 168 in ye olde blue booke "Welcome happy morning", an Easter hymn but now a kind of earthy vernacular Christmas carol. "Hard as hell" is not blasphemy: it is a reference to the need for very very hot flames to combat this deplorable weather. Cheers. H.M.
burning hard as hell heat is what is needed for a warm Noël In the barn it’s frigid thirty nine below horses feet are stamping everywhere it’s snow Welcome fiery furnace, etc
Welcome burning gases flammable, thank God from an ancient greenery from a rotting sod from Devonian forests countless years ago conquers winter’s freezing warms the status quo. Welcome fiery furnace, etc
Could there be a manger Such a chilly barn! Would the incarnation need a touch of warm? Noggin hot for Joseph wassail for the Maid extra set of blankets where the Child is laid Welcome fiery furnace, etc
Shepherds blow on fingers try the farmer’s brew “As it comes” they murmur “don’t mind if I do” See the little Christ Child on this coldest morn hostile is the weather eager to be born. Welcome fiery furnace, etc
Welcome holy Jesus on the shortest day light is sharply slanting pale its weakest ray. We will greet you, Jesus, with our furnace blaze You are God among us Hear our warmest praise Welcome fiery furnace, etc
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