From starry skies descending
Thou comest, glorious King
A manger [kribbe] low Thy bed
In winter's icy sting [angel]
O my dearest Child most holy
Shudd'ring, trembling in the cold!
Great God, Thou lovest me!
What suff'ring Thou didst bear
That I near Thee might be!
Thou art the world's Creator
God's own and true Word
Yet here no robe, no fire
For Thee, Divine Lord
Dearest, fairest, sweetest Infant
Dire this state of poverty
The more I care for Thee
Since Thou, O Love Divine
Will'st now so poor to be
A gifted musician and composer...
Alphonso Liguori wrote many popular hymns...
and táught them to the people in parish missions.
In 1732, while he was staying at the Convent of the Consolation, one of his order's houses in the small city of Deliceto in the province of Foggia in Southeastern Italy, Liguori wrote the Italian carol "Tu scendi dalle stelle" [From Starry Skies Descending...] in the musical style of a pastorale.
The version with Italian lyrics was based on his original song written in Neapolitan, which began Quanno nascette Ninno [When the child was born...]. As it was traditionally associated with the zampogna [double pipes], or large-format Italian bagpipe [doedelzak], it became known as Canzone di Zampognari [the Carol of the Bagpipers...].
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