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Text: | Once in Royal David's City |
Author: | Cecil Frances Alexander |
Tune: | IRBY |
Composer: | Henry J. Gauntlett |
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 And thro' 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 And our eyes at last shall see him,
thro' 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.
5 Not in that poor lowly stable,
with the oxen standing by,
we shall 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 |
Title: | Once in Royal David's City |
Author: | Cecil Frances Alexander (1848) |
Meter: | 8.7.8.7.7.7. |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 2018 |
Scripture: | |
Topic: | Children's Hymns; Christ: Birth of; Christ: Childhood of(3 more...) |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | IRBY |
Composer: | Henry J. Gauntlett (1849) |
Meter: | 8.7.8.7.7.7. |
Key: | F Major or modal |