Video Information

• Choir: Choir of St. James Cathedral Toronto
• Piece: Cast Off All Doubtful Care (2012)
• Composer:  Colin Eatock
• Conductor:  Vicki St. Pierre
• Voices:  SATB
• Genres: A cappella, Classical, Sacred, Contemporary
• music by Colin Eatock
  text by Francis Kindlemarsh
  
  Cast off all doubtful care,
  Exile and banish tears;
  To joyful news divine
  Lend us your list'ning ears.
  
  An earthly tree a heavenly fruit it bear,moremusic by Colin Eatock
  text by Francis Kindlemarsh
  
  Cast off all doubtful care,
  Exile and banish tears;
  To joyful news divine
  Lend us your list'ning ears.
  
  An earthly tree a heavenly fruit it bear,
  A case of clay contained a crown immortal.
  A crown of crowns, a King whose cost and care
  Redeemed poor man, whose race before was thrall
  To death, to doom, to pains of everlasting,
  By His sweet death, scorns, stripes, and often fasting.
  
  A star above the stars, a sun of light,
  Whose blessed beams this wretched earth bespread
  With hope of heaven and of God's Son the sight,
  Which in our flesh and sinful soul lay dead.
  O faith, O hope, O joys renowned for ever,
  O lively life that deathless shall persevere.
  
  Then let us sing the lullabys of sleep
  To this sweet babe, born to awake us all
  From drowsy sin that made old Adam weep,
  And by his fault gave to mankind the fall.
  For lo! this day, the birth day, day of days,
  Summons our songs to give Him laud and praise.  less