My first hymn

Last week at Schola Cantorum practice the director, Stephen Folkemer, was complaining about the letter 'r'. It's sometimes difficult to sing words containing an 'r' without putting too much stress on it. Stephen is a great composer of music and joked that he would someday write a hymn which would avoid that problem. Below is my first real attempt at writing a hymn, and you will notice the lack of a certain letter:

The Messiah has come

Let us sing to Heaven

Good news we behold

God's joy to us given

We sing to give thanks

The angels sing laud

The light to us given

The King's advent is now

The chosen of God

Angel's joy come down

The Messiah has come

The Messiah has come