Hymn:Once In Royal David's City
Tune:Irby
Words:Cecil Frances Alexander (1818-95)
Music:Henry John Gauntlett (1805-76)
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Verse 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. 
 
Verse 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. 
 
Verse 3
And through all his wondrous childhood 
he would honour and obey, 
love and watch the lowly maiden 
in whose gentle arms he lay: 
Christian children all must be 
mild, obedient, good as he. 
 
Verse 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 heav'n above: 
and he leads his children on 
to the place where he is gone. 
 
Verse 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. 
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