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The other G.K. Chesterton setting on the EP! Chesterton actually called the poem "A Christmas Carol", and also gave at least one other poem the same title, hence my using the first few words instead.
I love the charming, powerful simplicity of Chesterton's poem, the reminders of the subversiveness of the birth of Jesus (in opposition to the "stern" and "cunning" establishment!), and naturally, the glorious final verse, with the whole of nature watching the toddler God in amazement. :-)
I wrote the tune in the winter of 2013, the second that I wrote for this EP, and still probably my f...
