What Sweeter Music (Carol with lyrics)

"What "Sweeter Music" I have added lyrics to King's College Cambridge's 2015 Carols from King's 2015 performance of "What Sweeter Music". • WHAT SWEETER MUSIC Joh... . The words from this lesser known carol are by Words Robert Herrick (1591-1674). The music is one of John Rutter's most popular compositions.
This is from an article on John Rutter's carol compositions,
"For Rutter, composing for Christmas is a thread that has run through his life back to his days as a high-school chorister at Highgate.
“The high point of our singing year was Christmas,” he said. “Our parents would show up, and we’d do our best to sing our best music and make it a real sense of occasion.”
From singing, he said, it seemed a short step to composing. He has gone on to become one of the world’s most-successful choral composers. Much of that popularity derives from his fondness for the Christmas carol, which he calls a “form of folk celebration” that combines the sacred and the secular in a unique way.
“When you write a carol, you are connecting to a tradition that goes back much farther than any symphony or concerto,” he said." www.vocalessence.org/pressrel...
The graphics are from Teakbridge 101's UA-cam video. • What Sweeter Music
I do not hold any right to this performance, it is provided for those who like to have the lyrics with carols.
Lyrics:
What sweeter music can we bring
Than a carol, for to sing
The birth of this our heavenly King?
Awake the voice! Awake the string!
Dark and dull night, fly hence away,
And give the honour to this day
That sees December turn to May.
Why does the chilling winter’s morn
Smile, like a field beset with corn?
Or smell like a meadow newly shorn
Thus on the sudden? Come and see
The cause, why things thus fragrant be:
’Tis he is born, whose quickening birth
Gives life and lustre, public mirth,
To heaven and the underearth.
We see him come, and know him ours,
Who, with his sunshine and his showers,
Turns all the patient ground to flowers.
The darling of the world is come,
And fit it is, we find a room
To welcome him. The nobler part
Of all the house here, is the heart,
Which we will give him; and bequeath
This holly, and this ivy wreath,
To do him honour; who’s our King,
And Lord of all this revelling.
Words Robert Herrick
(1591-1674), abridged and altered

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"...the Lord of all.this revealing..." He is the reason for it all.