Once in Royal David's City
Sir David Willcocks/Ian Hare/Choir of King's College, Cambridge
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Once in a lowly city
Stood a lowly cattle shed
Where a mother laid her Baby
In a manger of hay and straw
She who was that mother mild
Jesus Christ, her little Child
He came down 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 meek, and lowly
Did our Master come a-crying
And though on His mother's chest
He no blood had found nor stain
Not an ounce of blood did He have
He looked yet more on Simeon
His blood shed for us did
That on the manger should the Lamb
For He is of shadows made
Day by day doth thy courts renew
He was laid to grief and helpะตless
Tears and sorrow thy courts adorn
And He feareth not our sadnะตss
And He cherisheth in our gladness
And all our eyes at last shall see Him
Through His own redeeming love
All that chance so dim and gentle
Is a glory heaven above
And we His children are
To the place where He is gone
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
Where like stars His children crowned
All in white shall wait around