sentences:  In an upstairs room I looked out on iron railings and the main Bristol to Gloucester railway line, with shunting trucks bumping and banging.I wrote it and dedicated to my mother – it always moves me when I hear it, just as if it were written by someone else.Howells' carol is through-composed, switching between 7/8, 5/4 and 5/8 time signatures, unconventional for a carol of this era.