Lyric search - "what is This Fragrance?"

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Nov 29, 2006 1:02 pm

Please help me find the lyrics for the Christmas song/hymn/chorus "What is This Fragrance?"
Thank you!!
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SingerForGod · Post by **SingerForGod** » Thu Nov 30, 2006 6:16 am

Steward, I tried to send this to your address above, but for some reason couldn't get it to go. There is another version of this on the same site this came from and I think I'll go back and copy/paste and post it here. Hope this is the one you're wanting.

What Is this Fragrance?
Words: Quelle est cette odeur agrÃ©able
Traditional French Noel (Lorrain)
Translator: K. W. Simpson

Music: Quelle est cette odeur agrÃ©able, Patrick Forbes
MIDI / Noteworthy Composer
Sheet music available at RoDeby Music Company

1. What is this fragrance softly stealing?
Shepherds! It sets my heart a-stir!
Never was sweetness so appealing
Never were flow'rs of spring so fair!
What is this fragrance softly stealing?
Shepherds! It sets my heart a-stir!

2. What is this Light around us streaming?
Out of the dark with blinding ray,
Purer than Star of Morning's seeming
Showing our path as plain as day!
What is this fragrance softly stealing?
Shepherds! It sets my heart a-stir!

3. What is this Wonder all around us
filling the air with music light!
Shepherds! some Magic here hath found us!
Never mine ears knew such delight!
What is this fragrance softly stealing?
Shepherds! It sets my heart a-stir!

4. Be not afraid, O, Shepherds lowly!
Hear ye the Angel of the Lord!
Bearing a Message glad and Holy
Shedding a radiance all abroad!
What is this fragrance softly stealing?
Shepherds! It sets my heart a-stir!

5. There, in a Manger with His Mother,
Lieth our Saviour, Born today!
Come away Shepherds; Let none other
Hinder thy coming now away!
What is this fragrance softly stealing?
Shepherds! It sets my heart a-stir!

SingerForGod · Post by **SingerForGod** » Thu Nov 30, 2006 6:21 am

Here is the other and different version.

What Is That Fragrance?
Words: Quelle est cette odeur agrÃ©able
Traditional French Carol
From John Gay, Beggars Opera, 1778
Translator and Date Unknown

Music: Quelle est cette odeur agrÃ©able

MIDI / Noteworthy Composer

1. What is that fragrance, Shepherds? How does it
Ravish with joy our senses five?
This is the scent of heaven's glory
Brought to this earth by God's own Son.
What is that fragrance, Shepherds? How does it
Ravish with joy our senses five?

2. What is that light? O Shepherds how does it
Pierce with its radiance winter's gloom?
When was the Day Star half so glorious
Standing above us at high noon?
This is the light of heaven's glory
Brought to this earth by God's own Son.

3. Where can we find God's holy glory?
Show us the temple where it dwells.
Show me a place where open-hearted
People can learn to hear God speak,
No matter where those people gather
God with them builds Jerusalem.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sun Dec 28, 2008 2:56 am

Yet another translation by AB Ramsey

Whence is the goodly fragrance flowing,
Stealing our senses all away,
Never the like did come a-blowing,
Shepherds, in flow'ry fields of May,
Whence is that goodly fragrance flowing,
Stealing our senses all away.

2. What is that light so brilliant, breaking
Here in the night across our eyes.
Never so bright, the day-star waking,
Started to climb the morning skies!
What is that light so brilliant, breaking,
Here in the night across our eyes.

3. Bethlehem! there in manger lying,
Find your Redeemer haste away,
Run ye with eager footsteps vieing!
Worship the Saviour born today.
Bethlehem! there in manger lying,
Find your Redeemer haste away.