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So hallow'd and so gracious is the time

for choir SATB and piano

Duration 3'

Words by William Shakespeare

this piece was written for Sargent Cancer Care for Children's Christmas Carol Campaign 2003

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other settings of Shakespeare by Paul Ayres include:
Blow, blow thou winter wind
Daisies
Fairies' Song
The lusty horn
Icicles
Music to hear
Take, O take those lips away
This sceptr'd isle

Text

Some say, that ever 'gainst that season comes
Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated,
The bird of dawning singeth all night long;
And then, they say, no spirit dare stir abroad,
The nights are wholesome, then no planets strike,
No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm,
So hallow'd and so gracious is the time.

(Marcellus, in Hamlet, Act 1 Scene 2)

Categories choral - mixed voices accompanied