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Text: | Once in Royal David's City |
Author: | Cecil Frances Alexander |
Tune: | IRBY |
Composer: | Henry John Gauntlett |
Composer (Descant): | David Willcocks |
Harmonizer: | Arthur Henry Mann |
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, with God is over all,
and his shelter was a stable,
and his cradle was a stall.
There among the poor and lowly
lived on earth our Saviour holy.
3 For he is our lifelong pattern;
daily, when on earth he grew;
he was tempted, scorned, rejected,
tears and smiles like us he knew.
Thus he feels for all our sadness,
and he shares in all our gladness.
4 And our eyes at last shall see him,
through his own redeeming love;
for that child who seemed so helpless
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, alt.) |
Meter: | 8 7 8 7 7 7 |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1996 |
Topic: | The Christian Year: C; Annunciation; Biblical Characters: David(22 more...) |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | IRBY |
Composer: | Henry John Gauntlett (1849) |
Harmonizer: | Arthur Henry Mann |
Composer (Descant): | David Willcocks (1970) |
Meter: | 8 7 8 7 7 7 |
Key: | F Major |
Copyright: | Descant copyright © Oxford University Press 1970. |