Once in royal David's city (2017)
Henry John Gauntlett desc. Stephen Cleobury
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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
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 the Savior holy
And who loved this world, the sad earth
Deformed, fallen, and lowly
The man was so lowly mangled
In whose chest the heart did lay
This poor child of whom all sing
And all kneel to worship still
For he is the childhood's pattern
Day by day, at last he grew
He was little, weak, and helpless
Tears and smiles at last he knew
And he knew all our sadness
And he shared the fear of gladness
And our eyes at last shall see him
Through his own redeeming love
For that child so dear and gentle
Is our Lord in heaven above
And he leads his children on
To the place where he is gone
Not in that dark lowly stable
Did he once a sad thing pine
We shall see him, but in heaven
Set at God's right hand on high
And like stars his children crowned
All in white shall meet his bride