Friday, December 28, 2012

Look what our good God has done for us

Good people all, this Christmastime,

Consider well and bear in mind

What our good God for us has done

In sending His beloved Son.

O let us all both sing and pray

To God with love this Christmas Day;

In Bethlehem that Christmas morn

There was a blessed Messiah born.


Near Bethlehem did shepherds keep

Their flocks of lambs and feeding sheep;

To whom God’s angels did appear,

Which put the shepherds in great fear.

“Prepare and go,” the angels said,

“To Bethlehem, be not afraid;

For there you’ll find, this happy morn,

A princely babe, sweet Jesus born.”


With thankful heart and joyful mind

The shepherds went the Babe to find.

And as God’s angel had foretold

They did our Saviour Christ behold.

Within a manger He was laid,

And by His side the Virgin Maid

Attending on the Lord of Life

Who came on earth to end all strife.


Wexford Carol, From County Wexford, England

 

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