[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GF2BzUDeTkY[\/youtube]<\/p>\n
Beautiful Basque carol originally written by Sabine Baring Gould. The lyrics are wonderful (below) and Sting’s interpretation is sublime.<\/p>\n
The angel Gabriel from heaven came
\nHis wings as drifted snow
\nHis eyes as flame
\n“All hail” said he “thou lowly maiden Mary,
\nMost highly favoured lady,” Gloria!<\/p>\n
“For known a blessed mother thou shalt be,
\nAll generations laud and honor thee,
\nThy Son shall be Emmanuel,
\nBy seers foretold
\nMost highly favoured lady,” Gloria!<\/p>\n
Then gentle Mary meekly bowed her head
\n“To me be as it pleaseth God,” she said,
\n“My soul shall laud and magnify his holy name.”
\nMost highly favoured lady, Gloria!<\/p>\n
Of her Emmanuel, the Christ was born
\nIn Bethlehem all on a Christmas morn
\nAnd everyone throughout the world forever saved
\nMost highly favoured lady, Gloria!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GF2BzUDeTkY[\/youtube] Beautiful Basque carol originally written by Sabine Baring Gould. The lyrics are wonderful (below) and Sting’s interpretation is sublime. The angel Gabriel from heaven came His wings as drifted snow His eyes as flame “All hail” said he “thou lowly maiden Mary, Most highly favoured lady,” Gloria! “For known a blessed mother thou shalt […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-katrynas-caroltacular-christmas-countdown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithmile.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithmile.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithmile.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithmile.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithmile.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/faithmile.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":204,"href":"https:\/\/faithmile.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions\/204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithmile.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithmile.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithmile.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}