Text: | Infant Holy |
Paraphraser: | Edith M. G. Reed |
Tune: | INFANT HOLY |
Harmonizer: | David Hugh Jones |
1 Infant holy, infant lowly,
for his bed a cattle stall;
oxen lowing, little knowing
Christ the babe is Lord of all.
Swift are winging angels singing,
noels ringing, tidings bringing:
Christ the babe is Lord of all!
2 Flocks were sleeping; shepherds keeping
vigil till the morning new
saw the glory, heard the story,
tidings of a gospel true.
Thus rejoicing, free from sorrow,
praises voicing, greet the morrow:
Christ the babe was born for you.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | Infant holy, infant lowly |
Title: | Infant Holy |
Paraphraser: | Edith M. G. Reed (c. 1925) |
Meter: | 44.7.44.7.4444.7 |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1985 |
Source: | Wzlobie lezy, Polish carol |
Copyright: | Paraphrase copyright © 1925, used by permission of Bell & Hyman Ltd. |
Notes: | Now Public Domain. |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | INFANT HOLY |
Harmonizer: | David Hugh Jones (1953) |
Meter: | 44.7.44.7.4444.7 |
Key: | A♭ Major |
Source: | Traditional Polish tune |
Copyright: | Harmonization from the Hymnbook, copyright MCMLV by John Ribble, renewed 1983, used by permission of Westminster Press |