"What Child Is This?" is a popular Christmas carol that was written in 1865 by twenty-nine year old writer William Chatterton Dix. William Dix was struck with a sudden near-fatal illness and confined to bedrest for several months, during which time he went into a deep depression. Yet out of his near-death experience, Dix wrote many hymns, including "What Child is This?". It was later set to the traditional English melody of "Greensleeves".
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