It's the first Advent Sunday of the year, so time for the first Carol, and what better way to celebrate than with a track from William Shatner's Christmas album 'Shatner Claus' - seriously, I'm not making this up! - better still, this is a Carol that has never previously featured on the Calendar. I'll let you decide if it was worth waiting for or not.
The hymn is monastic and there is evidence of it being sung in Latin in the 8th and 9th Century, before it was given an English translation in 1851 and featured in Hymns Ancient & Modern. How wonderful that Bill should be boldly going where men went long before.
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