Common Praise #50
Tune Title: DIES EST LÆTITIÆ First Line: Dost thou in a manger lie Composer: Jack W. Burnam, b. 1946 Meter: 76 76 774 775 Key: F Major Date: 2000 Source: Piae Cantiones, 1582
Common Praise #50
Title: | DIES EST LAETITIAE |
Meter: | 7.6.7.6.7.7.5.7.7.6 |
Incipit: | 11234 21226 71111 |
Key: | F Major |
Source: | 15th century German tune |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
Dost thou in a manger lie,
Who hast all created,
Stretching infant hands on high,
Savior, long awaited?
If a monarch, where thy state?
Where thy court on thee to wait?
Royal purple, where?
Here no regal pomp we see;
Naught but need and penury:
Why thus cradled here?
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