{"id":2776,"date":"1970-12-31T13:56:00","date_gmt":"1970-12-31T13:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/?p=2776"},"modified":"2025-05-01T15:05:55","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T15:05:55","slug":"puer-natus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/?p=2776","title":{"rendered":"Puer natus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>All under the leaves &#8211; traditional English carol (Puer Natus)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/purechocolate.org.uk\/music\/Allunder.mp3\"><\/audio><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><sub><sup>\u00a9 Stuart Moffatt 1970<\/sup><\/sub><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>All under the leaves, the leaves of life<br>I met with virgins seven,<br>And one of them was Mary mild<br>our Lord&#8217;s mother from heaven<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>O what are you seeking, you seven fair maids<br>All under the leaves of life?<br>Come tell, come tell me what seek you<br>All under the leaves of life<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We&#8217;re seeking for no leaves, Thomas,<br>but for a friend of thine<br>We&#8217;re seeking for sweet Jesus Christ,<br>to be our friend and thine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Go you down, go you down, to yonder town,<br>and sit in the gallery<br>And there you&#8217;ll find sweet Jesus Christ,<br>nailed to a big yew tree<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So down they went to yonder town<br>as fast as feet could fall<br>And many a grievous bitter tear<br>from the virgins&#8217; eyes did fall<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>O peace, Mother, O peace, Mother<br>your weeping doth me grieve<br>O I must suffer this, he said,<br>for Adam and for Eve<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>O how can I my weeping leave,<br>or my sorrows undergo<br>whilst I do see my own son die,<br>when sons I have no more<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Dear Mother, Dear Mother, you must take John,<br>all for to be your son<br>And he will comfort you some times<br>Mother as I have done<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>O come thou, John, Evangelist,<br>thou&#8217;rt welcome unto me,<br>But more welcome my own dear son,<br>that I nursed upon my knee<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then he laid his head on his right shoulder<br>seeing death it struck him nigh<br>The Holy Ghost be with your soul,<br>I die, dear mother, I die<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then he laid his head on his right shoulder<br>seeing death it struck him nigh<br>The Holy Ghost be with your soul,<br>I die, dear mother, I die<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>O the rose, the rose, the gentle rose,<br>and the fennel that grows so green<br>God give us grace in every place<br>to pray for king and queen<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Furthermore for our enemies all,<br>our prayers they should be strong,<br>Amen Good Lord! your Charitie<br>is the ending of my song<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Amen<br><br><br>Traditional English carol<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>ChoralWiki and <a href=\"https:\/\/nwc-scriptorium.org\/db\/christmas\/allunder.id\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NoteWorthy Scriptorium<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The copyright of the music is held by\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:hymns@purechocolate.org.uk\">Stuart Moffatt (\u00a9 1970)<\/a>.<br>The midi file was produced using\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/noteworthycomposer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Noteworthy Composer<\/a>.<br>The mp3\/ogg were produced using\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.myriad-online.com\/\">Myriad<\/a>\u00a0software.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All under the leaves &#8211; traditional English carol (Puer Natus) All under the leaves, the leaves of lifeI met with virgins seven,And one of them was Mary mildour Lord&#8217;s mother from heaven O what are you seeking, you seven fair maidsAll under the leaves of life?Come tell, come tell me what seek youAll under the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13,16],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-2776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","category-music","category-poetry","tag-hymns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2776"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2830,"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2776\/revisions\/2830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.purechocolate.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}