The Cyber Hymnal ‎#10668

10668. Shepherds, Tell Your Beauteous Story

1 Shepherds, tell your beauteous story,
How the dazzling angel glory
Sang to Juda’s hillsides hoary,
Born is your eternal King.

2 Bethlehem hath now beholden
Kings of tribes far off and olden,
Incense, myrrh and treasure golden
To her conquering Lion bring.

3 So with Mary’s gladness blending,
Let our thankfulness ascending
Scale high Heav’n in sweet contending
With the angels’ glorious choir.

4 God with us, thro’ Mary, dwelleth!
This dear grace all praise excelleth;
Let the song such bliss that telleth
In its own great joy expire.

Text Information

• First Line: Shepherds, tell your beauteous story
• Title: Shepherds, Tell Your Beauteous Story
• German Title: Quem pastores laudavere
• Translator: John O'Connor
• Meter: 88.87
• Language: English
• Source: German, sometime between the 13th and 17th Centuries; Tr: Arundel Hymns by Henry Fitzalan-Howard and Charles T. Gatty, 1902; Tr: Arundel Hymns by Henry Fitzalan-Howard and Charles T. Gatty, 1902
• Copyright: Public Domain

Tune Information

• Name: QUEM PASTORES
• Meter: 88.87
• Key: F Major
• Source: Hohenfurth Manuscript, 1410
• Copyright: Public Domain