Image credit: Madonna with Child, Victor Nizovtsev,
shamelessly pinched from somewhere on FB and investigated to find the artist.
This is a bit out of tone now, it being about the Advent, but it's rich and there are some gorgeous poems in it: Malcolm Guite on the O Antiphons
And: a new-to-me carol with gorgeous lyrics by Peter Warlock
Myrrh for its sweetness, and gold for a crown
Beautiful robes’, said the young girl to Joseph
Fair with her first-born on Bethlehem Down
Bethlehem Down is full of the starlight
Winds for the spices, and stars for the gold
Mary for sleep, and for lullaby music
Songs of a shepherd by Bethlehem fold
When He is King they will clothe Him in grave-sheets
Myrrh for embalming, and wood for a crown
He that lies now in the white arms of Mary
Sleeping so lightly on Bethlehem Down
Here He has peace and a short while for dreaming
Close-huddled oxen to keep Him from cold
Mary for love, and for lullaby music
Songs of a shepherd by Bethlehem fold
