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Text: | Once in royal David’s city |
Author: | Cecil Frances Alexander, 1823 - 95 |
Tune: | IRBY |
Composer: | Henry J. Gauntlett, 1805 - 76 |
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 Saviour holy.
3 And through all his wondrous childhood
He would honor and obey,
Love and watch the lowly maiden
In whose gentle arms he lay;
Christian children all must be
Mild, obedient, good as he.
4 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 in our gladness.
5 And our eyes at last shall see him
Through his own redeeming love,
For that Child so dear and gentle
Is our Lord in heaven above;
And he leads his children on
To the place where he is gone.
6 Not in that poor lowly stable,
With the oxen standing by,
Shall we see him; but in heaven,
Set at God's right hand on high,
When like stars his children crowned
All in white shall wait around.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | Once in royal David’s city |
Author: | Cecil Frances Alexander, 1823 - 95 |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1958 |
Topic: | The Church Year: Christmas |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | IRBY |
Composer: | Henry J. Gauntlett, 1805 - 76 |
Meter: | 8 7, 8 7, 7 7. |
Key: | F Major |