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Christmas Lyrics
Christmas Songs, Carols and Hymns!!
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Look, Shepherds, Look!
Love Came Down At Christmas
Luther's Carol
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Look, Shepherds, Look!
- Words - From a manuscript in the Ashmolean Museum, Modernized by Richard R. Chope, score - Unknown, - Mr. Herbert Stephen Irons
Look, Shepherds, look!
Why? Where?
See you not yonder? there!
Lord! what a glorious light
Streams thro the air!
Never was sun so bright, Nor morn so fair!
Methinks it doth appear
Like Glory coming near.
Heavenly Music! Glorious Light!
Yet more fearful than the night.
Fear not, Shepherd, for behold!
Better Tidings ne'er were told!
News I bring you this same Tide,
This blessed Morn,
To you and all mankind beside,
A Saviour's born.
Post to Bethlem, post about;
Post, and seek this Infant out!
this Infant out!
List, Shepherds, listen, listen round!
Hark! hear you not a sound?
Lord! what a Heavenly air
Beats thro' our ear!
Never was sweeter voice,
Nor note so clear!
Methinks it doth appear
Like Glory coming near.
Heavenly Music! Glorious Light!
Yet more fearful than the night.
With these signs you shall begin:
In a stable, in an Inn,
You shall find His Mother-maid,
Poorly friended,
And the Babe in Manger laid,
Worse attended.
When you find Him, loudly cry
Glory be to God on High!
to God on High!
Glory be to God above!
Peace on earth, amongst men love!
Death and Hell are now be guiled,
God and men are reconciled.
Glory be to God! Alleluia!
Glory to God! Peace! Peace!
Peace! on earth be Peace!
Peace! Peace! with men on earth be Peace!
Love Came Down At Christmas
- Christina G. Rossetti
Love came down at Christmas,
Love all lovely, Love divine;
Love was born at Christmas,
Star and angels gave the sign.
Worship we the Godhead,
Love incarnate, Love divine;
Worship we our Jesus:
But wherewith for sacred sign?
Love shall be our token,
Love be yours and love be mine,
Love to God and all men,
Love for plea and gift and sign.
Luther's Carol
- Martin Luther, Joseph Klug, Translation - Rev. Henry Ramsden Bramley, Music - James Higgs, Mus. Bac.
From highest heaven I come to tell
The gladdest news that e'er befell;
These tidings true to you I bring,
And gladly of them say and sing.
'To you today is given a Child,
Born of a chosen virgin mild;
That blessed Child, so sweet and kind,
Shall give you joy and peace of mind.
'Tis Christ our Lord and God indeed,
Your help and stay in every need:
Himself your Saviour He will be,
From sin and death to set you free.
'All blessedness to you he bears
Which God the Father's love prepares;
The heavenly kingdom ye shall gain,
And now and ever with us reign.
'Now hear the sign, and mark with care
The swaddling clothes and crib so bare;
There shall ye find this Infant laid
Who all the world upholds and made.'
Then let us all our gladness show,
And with the joyful shepherds go
To see what God for us hath done,
In sending us his glorious Son.
Awake, my soul! my heart, behold
Who lieth in that manger cold!
Who is this lovely baby boy?
'Tis Jesus Christ, our only joy.
Now welcome, ever-blessed guest,
To sinful souls with guilt oppressed;
In mercy come to our distress!
How can we thank thy gentleness?
Ah, Lord, who all things didst create,
How cam'st thou to this poor estate,
To make the hay and straw thy bed,
Whereon the ox and ass are fed?
Nay, were the world ten times so wide,
With gold and gems on every side,
Yet were it all too small to be
A narrow cradle, Lord, for thee.
Thy samite and thy silk array
Are swathing-bands and coarsest hay
Which thou, O King, dost bathe with light
As though enthroned in heaven bright.
And all this woe hath come to thee
That thou might'st show the truth to me;
For all the power and wealth of earth
To thee are vile and nothing worth.
Ah, Jesu, my heart's treasure blest,
Make thee a clean, soft cradle-nest
And rest enshrined within my heart,
That I from thee may never part.
So shall I evermore rejoice,
And bounding sing, with heart and voice,
A lullaby which Thou wilt own,
The spirit's song of sweetest tone.
To God on high all glory be,
Who gave His only Son for me;
For which the Angels carol clear
And sing us such a glad New Year.
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