His Birth
8.7.7.
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 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.
3
May our eyes at last behold Him,
Through His own redeeming love;
For that Child, so dear and gentle,
Is the Lord in heaven above;
And He leads His children on
To the place where He is gone.
4
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.
