It's not Advent quite yet, but the Christmas lights lining the High Street were turned on this week and are brightening our long, dark evenings. That makes today a good day for a carol.
"Let All Mortal Flesh" has good memories associated with it. I was in a literary fraternity in college and we had a beautiful grand piano in our common room. In the lead-up to the winter break, some of us would get together to sing Christmas carols, including this one.
The original text is Greek, and late antique, and the melody is a late medieval French folk song. The English translation is from the nineteenth century. Together, they make a magical combination.
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