It’s a Christmas hymn about a rich prince who was busy striding around and giving to the poor, and it ends by saying all good Christians ‘wealth or rank possessing’ should do the same. It’s a cracking tune and it means that at least once per year, most Anglican churchgoers will get reminded of those words.
The story is medieval but the particular text comes out of the Victorian charity movement which, at its best, was vaguely proto EA and proto progress studies in many ways.
It’s not EA but I have a soft spot for Good King Wenceslas (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_King_Wenceslas)
It’s a Christmas hymn about a rich prince who was busy striding around and giving to the poor, and it ends by saying all good Christians ‘wealth or rank possessing’ should do the same. It’s a cracking tune and it means that at least once per year, most Anglican churchgoers will get reminded of those words.
The story is medieval but the particular text comes out of the Victorian charity movement which, at its best, was vaguely proto EA and proto progress studies in many ways.