A few songs that I haven't seen mentioned that I like are

1. A Stable Lamp is Lighted (Richard Wilbur, © 1961) to the tune ANDÚJAR (David Hurd, © 1984); there's another, earlier (© 1969) tune called TOLLEFSON (after the composer) in the Lutheran Book of Worship, but I haven't tried it yet.


2. One Candle Is Lit by Mary Anne Parrott, © 1995 Chalice Press (in the Chalice Hymnal), set to CRADLE SONG, the Kirkpatrick tune often used for Away in a Manger; this should be quite effective as a sort of antiphon to the weekly lighting of Advent candles
3. Child in the Manger to BUNESSAN ("Morning has broken")
4. On this day earth shall ring ("Personent hodie")
5. In Dulci Jubilo (macaronic with Latin the way Suso sang it, not the Neale chauvinizing version or its revisionist revisions)

A few that are in my Esperanto hymnal (see Christmas list) but that I am looking for English versions of (if you know the English texts, send me PM or email!) are:

1. At even, long ago, by C. Bingham (also titled "The Star Eternal")
2. Che l' Kristofesto ghojas ni, by Ellen Gregory
3. Det susar genom livets strid, by Carl Boberg (famous in English for How Great Thou Art, but none of his other Swedish hymns seem to have been translated - into English, that is; we have several in Esperanto)
4. Fra fjord og fjære, by Magnus Brostrup Landstad
5. La Saghuloj pro Advento, by Leonard Ivor Gentle
6. Min själ berömmer Gud med fröjd, another one by Boberg (this time his Magnificat)
7. Mit Hjerte altid vanker, by Hans Adolph Brorson
8. My heart and voice I raise, by Benjamin Rhodes
9. No koma Guds englar, by Elias Blix
10. Sæle jolekveld, by Elias Blix (to the tune usually associated with Jesu, geh voran)

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