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{{about|the poem by Thomas Hardy|the animal, and for other uses of the noun 'ox', singular and plural|Ox (disambiguation)}}{{use British English|date=May 2015}}{{use dmy dates|date=May 2015}}"The Oxen" is a poem (sometimes known by its first line, "Christmas Eve, and Twelve of the Clock") by the English novelist and poet Thomas Hardy (1840{{ndash}}1928). It relates to a West Country legend: that, on the anniversary of Christ's Nativity, each Christmas Day, farm animals kneel in their stalls in homage. It was first published in December 1915, in the London newspaper The Times.[1] It has been set to music several times. Musical settings These include (in date order, where known):[1] - 1919{{snd}}Graham Peel (1878{{ndash}}1937), for voice and piano
- 1920{{snd}}Edward Joseph Dent (1876{{ndash}}1957), for voice and piano
- 1921{{ndash}}22{{snd}}Gerald Finzi (1901{{ndash}}56), for voice and orchestra, as the third piece in his song cycle By Footpath and Stile, Op. 2
- 1927{{snd}}Leslie Cochran, for voice and piano
- 1945{{snd}}Robert Fleming (1921{{ndash}}76), for medium voice and piano
- 1951{{snd}}Armstrong Gibbs (1889{{ndash}}1960), for voice and piano
- 1954{{snd}}Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872{{ndash}}1958), for baritone and orchestra, No. 7 in his cantata Hodie [2]
- 1954{{snd}}Robert Williams, for unison chorus and piano
- 1958{{snd}}Richard K. Winslow (born 1918), for SATB chorus and piano or organ
- 1963{{snd}}William Reginald Pasfield (1909{{ndash}}94), for unison chorus and piano
- 1967{{snd}}Alan Rawsthorne (1905{{ndash}}71), for mixed chorus a cappella
- 1968{{snd}}Benjamin Britten (1913{{ndash}}76), for SA chorus and piano
- 1991{{snd}}Jonathan Rathbone, a capella, for the SATB popular group The Swingle Singers [3]
- 2009{{snd}}Derek Holman (born 1931), as "Christmas Eve", for voice and piano, No.2 in his The Four Seasons
- Jonathan Elkus (born 1931), for high voice and piano
References {{wikisource|The year's at the spring/Hardy, Thomas}}1. ^1 {{cite web |url=http://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=7259 |website=recmusic.org |title=Christmas Eve, and twelve of the clock |accessdate=18 May 2015 }}
2. ^{{IMSLP2|work=Hodie (Vaughan Williams, Ralph)|cname=Hodie (Vaughan Williams, Ralph)}}
3. ^{{Allmusic|class=song|id=the-oxen-mt0009413177|label=The Swingle Singers: The Oxen, Composed by Thomas Hardy|accessdate=18 May 2015 }}
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