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164 | Chalice Hymnal#165 | 166 |
Text: | Once in Royal David's City |
Author: | Cecil F. Alexander |
Tune: | IRBY |
Composer: | Henry John Gauntlett |
Harmonizer: | Arthur H. Mann |
1 Once in royal David's city
stood a lowly cattle shed,
where a mother laid her baby
in a manger for his bed:
Mary was that Mother mild,
Jesus Christ her little child.
2 Christ came down to earth from heaven
love incarnate for us all,
and his shelter was a stable,
and his cradle was a stall;
with the poor, the scorned, the lowly,
lived on earth our Savior holy.
3 Jesus is our childhood's pattern;
day by day like us he grew,
he was little, weak, and helpless,
tears and smiles like us he knew;
Thus he feels for our sadness,
and he shares in all our gladness.
5 And our eyes at last shall see him,
through his own redeeming love;
for that child who seemed so helpless,
lives and reigns in heaven above;
and he leads his children on
to the place where he is gone.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | Once in royal David's city |
Title: | Once in Royal David's City |
Author: | Cecil F. Alexander (1848, alt.) |
Meter: | 87.87.77 |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1995 |
Scripture: | |
Topic: | God Known in Jesus Christ: Birth; Christian Year: Christmas; Jesus Christ(1 more...) |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | IRBY |
Composer: | Henry John Gauntlett (1849) |
Harmonizer: | Arthur H. Mann (1919) |
Meter: | 87.87.77 |
Key: | F Major |