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In The Bleak Midwinter

28th December 2025 Swiss Bob Arts, Christianity, Music 0
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This is a poem written by Christina Rossetti, set to music first by Gustav Holst in 1906 and then by Harold Darke in 1911.

This is by Darke :


 

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