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Text: | Gentle Mary Laid Her Child |
Author: | Joseph Simpson Cook |
Tune: | TEMPUS ADEST FLORIDUM |
Arranger: | Ernest C. MacMillan |
Media: | Audio recording |
1 Gentle Mary laid her child
lowly in a manger;
there he lay, the undefiled,
to the world a stranger.
Such a babe in such a place,
can he be the Savior?
Ask the saved of all the race
who have found his favor.
2 Angels sang about his birth;
wise men sought and found him;
heaven’s star shone brightly forth,
glory all around him.
Shepherds saw the wondrous sight,
heard the angels singing;
all the plains were lit that night;
all the hills were ringing.
3 Gentle Mary laid her child
lowly in a manger;
he is still the undefiled,
but no more a stranger.
Son of God, of humble birth,
beautiful the story;
praise his name in all the earth;
hail the King of glory!
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First Line: | Gentle Mary laid her child |
Title: | Gentle Mary Laid Her Child |
Author: | Joseph Simpson Cook (1919, rev. 1930) |
Meter: | 7.6.7.6.D |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 2013 |
Scripture: | ; ; |
Topic: | Christian Year: Nativity/Christmas; Christian Year: Epiphany; Jesus Christ: Birth |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | TEMPUS ADEST FLORIDUM |
Arranger: | Ernest C. MacMillan (1930) |
Meter: | 7.6.7.6.D |
Key: | G Major |
Source: | Piae Cantiones, 1582 |
This 20th-century Christmas text by an English-born Canadian clergyman was originally a poem called “The Manger Prince.” It gains a certain antique flavor by being set to a late medieval song associated with springtime. (The tune name means “The flowering time is near.”)
(The tune name means “The flowering time is near.”)
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Audio recording: | Audio (MP3) |