Once, in royal david's city

- 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 meek and lowly
- Lived on earth our Saviour holy.
- And through all His wondrous childhood
- He would honour and obey,
- Love and watch the lowly mother
- In whose gentle arms He lay.
- Christian children all should be
- Mild, obedient, good as He.
- For He is our childhood's pattern:
- Day by day like us He grew;
- He was little, weak and helpless;
- Tears and smiles like us He knew:
- And He feeleth for our sadness,
- And He shareth in our 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 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. ......
Album: English Hymns, Artist: Cecil Frances Alexander , Language: English, Viewed: 720 times