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Although the lyrics were written as a poem by English poet Christina Rossetti before 1872, it was published posthumously in Rossetti's Poetic Works in 1904 and became a Christmas carol after it appeared in The English Hymnal in 1906 with a setting by gustav Holst. According to the website Cyber Hymnal, Rossetti wrote these words in response to a request from the magazine Scribner's Monthly for a Christmas poem. In 2008 Harold Darke's setting In the