When Will My Heart Arise - Sissel Kyrkjebo

On this glad Christmas morning

When will my heart arise

The dew will rise the dawning

The sun rise to the skies

Oh Jesu while you're sleeping

The whole world sings its joys

But I am filled with weeping

When will my heart arise

I am the thorns that crowned you

I am the whips that scourge

I am the chains that bound you

Who all my sins did purge

I am the cross you shoulder

A cross that crucified

Against your tongue the boulder

When will my heart arise

I heed here by your manger

Oh blessed winter child

Great do not have me stranger

Into the winter wild

I kneel here for forgiveness

And all my sins despise

Forgive me gentle baby

Then will my heart arise