Good King Wenceslas-Mantovani

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[00:00.00]Good King Wenceslas - The Mantovani Orchestra
[00:09.48]Good King Wenceslas looked out
[00:12.39]On the feast of Stephen
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[00:15.40]When the snow lay round about
[00:18.57]Deep and crisp and even
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[00:21.61]Brightly shone the moon that night
[00:24.95]Though the frost was cruel
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[00:27.95]When a poor man came in sight
[00:31.18]Gath'ring winter fuel
[00:33.80]
[00:36.80]"Hither, page, and stand by me
[00:39.67]If thou know'st it, telling
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[00:42.59]Yonder peasant, who is he?
[00:45.84]Where and what his dwelling?"
[00:48.41]
[00:49.09]"Sire, he lives a good league hence
[00:52.51]Underneath the mountain
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[00:55.54]Right against the forest fence
[00:58.69]By Saint Agnes' fountain."
[01:02.00]
[01:04.07]"Bring me bread and bring me wine
[01:06.99]Bring me pine logs hither
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[01:10.01]Thou and I will see him dine
[01:13.08]When we bear him thither."
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[01:16.08]Page and monarch forth they went
[01:19.04]Forth they went together
[01:22.29]Through the rude wind's wild lament
[01:25.13]And the bitter weather
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[01:30.23]Sire, the night is darker now,
[01:33.22]And the wind blows stronger.
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[01:36.29]Fails my heart, I know not how.
[01:39.24]I can go no longer.
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[01:42.41]Ark my footsteps my good page,
[01:45.26]Tread thou in them boldly:
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[01:48.65]Thou shalt find the winter's rage
[01:51.35]Freeze thy blood less coldly.
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[01:56.61]In his master's step he trod,
[01:59.48]Where the snow lay dented.
[02:02.32]Heat was in the very sod
[02:05.41]Which the saint had printed.
[02:08.30]Therefore, Christian men, be sure,
[02:11.47]Wealth or rank possessing,
[02:14.33]Ye who now will bless the poor
[02:17.32]Shall yourselves find blessing