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Text: | Once in Royal David's City |
Author: | Cecil Frances Alexander |
Tune: | IRBY |
Composer: | Henry J. Gauntlett |
Media: | Audio recording |
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, loving 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, the scorned, the lowly
lived on earth our Savior holy.
3. Jesus 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.
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 heaven 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 (1848) |
Meter: | 87.87.77 |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1989 |
Scripture: | |
Topic: | Christ's Gracious Life: Birth and Baptism; Christian Year: Christmas; Christian Year: Epiphany(3 more...) |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | IRBY |
Composer: | Henry J. Gauntlett (1849) |
Meter: | 87.87.77 |
Key: | F Major |
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Audio recording: | ![]() |