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Commenti disabilitati su Tre Re d’Oriente
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Sarà che la Befana è stata una dei miei terrori d’infanzia (insieme al fall-out nucleare, va’ a sapere…), ma ho sempre trovato molto più poetica l’idea dei tre Re d’Oriente che seguono la stella…
In celebrazione di ciò, cominciamo con I Magi di D’Annunzio…
Una luce vermiglia
risplende nella pia
notte e si spande via
per miglia e miglia e miglia.
O nova meraviglia!
O fiore di Maria!
Passa la melodia
e la terra s’ingiglia.
Cantano tra il fischiare
del vento per le forre,
i biondi angeli in coro;
ed ecco Baldassarre
Gaspare e Melchiorre,
con mirra, incenso ed oro.
E finiamo con la carola We Three Kings, perfetta per quando si aggiungono i Magi al presepio, con seguito e cammelli:
Qui ci sono le parole:
We three kings of Orient are
Bearing gifts we traverse afar.
Field and fountain, moor and mountain,
Following yonder star.
Chorus:
O star of wonder, star of night,
Star with royal beauty bright,
Westward leading, still proceeding,
Guide us to thy perfect Light.
Born a king on Bethlehem’s plain,
Gold I bring to crown Him again,
King forever, ceasing never
Over us all to reign.
Chorus:
O star of wonder, star of night,
Star with royal beauty bright,
Westward leading, still proceeding,
Guide us to thy perfect Light.
Myrrh is mine: Its bitter perfume
Breaths a life of gathering gloom.
Sorrowing, sighing, bleeding,dying,
Sealed in the stone-cold tomb.
Chorus:
O star of wonder, star of night,
Star with royal beauty bright,
Westward leading, still proceeding,
Guide us to thy perfect Light.
Glorious now behold Him arise,
King and God and Sacrifice.
Alleluia, alleluia!
Sounds through the earth and skies.
Chorus:
O star of wonder, star of night,
Star with royal beauty bright,
Westward leading, still proceeding,
Guide us to thy perfect Light.
Bearing gifts we traverse afar.
Field and fountain, moor and mountain,
Following yonder star.
Chorus:
O star of wonder, star of night,
Star with royal beauty bright,
Westward leading, still proceeding,
Guide us to thy perfect Light.
Born a king on Bethlehem’s plain,
Gold I bring to crown Him again,
King forever, ceasing never
Over us all to reign.
Chorus:
O star of wonder, star of night,
Star with royal beauty bright,
Westward leading, still proceeding,
Guide us to thy perfect Light.
Myrrh is mine: Its bitter perfume
Breaths a life of gathering gloom.
Sorrowing, sighing, bleeding,dying,
Sealed in the stone-cold tomb.
Chorus:
O star of wonder, star of night,
Star with royal beauty bright,
Westward leading, still proceeding,
Guide us to thy perfect Light.
Glorious now behold Him arise,
King and God and Sacrifice.
Alleluia, alleluia!
Sounds through the earth and skies.
Chorus:
O star of wonder, star of night,
Star with royal beauty bright,
Westward leading, still proceeding,
Guide us to thy perfect Light.
Buona Epifania a tutti!
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