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Text: | Once in Royal David's City |
Author: | Cecil Frances Alexander |
Tune: | IRBY |
Composer: | Henry J. Gauntlett, 1805-1876 |
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 He came down to earth from heaven
who is God and Lord of all,
and his shelter was a stable,
and his cradle was a stall:
with the poor, and mean, and lowly,
lived on earth our Savior holy.
3 For he 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:
and he feeleth for our sadness,
and he shareth all our gladness.
4 And our eyes at last shall see him
through his own redeeming love,
for that child so dear and gentle
is our Lord in heav'n 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 Frances Alexander (alt.) |
Meter: | 8.7.8.7.7.7. |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 2013 |
Scripture: | ; |
Topic: | Christmas; Epiphany; Jesus Christ: Redeemer(3 more...) |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | IRBY |
Composer: | Henry J. Gauntlett, 1805-1876 |
Meter: | 8.7.8.7.7.7. |
Key: | F Major or modal |