What child is this, who laid to rest
What child is this, who laid to rest. William Chatterton Dix* (1837-1898).
This carol was included in the influential collection Christmas Carols New and Old (1871), compiled by H.R. Bramley* and John Stainer*. The statement often made that it was originally part of a longer poem entitled ‘The manger throne’ is incorrect; ‘The manger throne’ is an alternative title for another carol by Dix, ‘Like silver lamps in a distant shrine’. ‘What child is this’ is sung to the well-known 16th-century tune of GREENSLEEVES, for which it is thought to have been written.
The chief strength of the carol lies in the second stanza, which carries the reminder that nails and spear of the Crucifixion are...
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