Sing, O Sing This Blessed Morn

“Sing, O Sing This Blessed Morn” is a hymn commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ. Written by Anglican bishop, scholar, author, and poet Christopher Wordsworth (1807-1885), it was published in his collection, The Holy Year; or Hymns for Sundays and Holy-Days, and Other Occasions (1862).

Rather than a mere retelling of the Nativity story, the hymn is also a statement of beliefs about the nature and work of Christ, echoing elements of the Nicene Creed in phrases such as:

“God from God, and Light from Light”
“God himself comes down from heav’n”
“One with us in human birth”
“God with us … deigns forever now to dwell”
“born for us that we born again in him may be”
“with thy Spirit may [we] be … with the Father and with thee”

This joyful, medium-easy setting of “Sing, O Sing This Blessed Morn” for SATB voices and organ is mostly unison, with SATB on the first half of stanzas 3 and 5, and on the concluding “alleluias.”

SATB/organ score (4 pages, 8.5×11″)