Text: | Child in the Manger |
Author: | Mary Macdonald of Mull |
Translator: | Lachlan McBean |
Tune: | BUNESSAN |
1 Child in the manger, infant of Mary,
outcast and stranger, Lord of all!
Child who inherits all our transgressions,
all our demerits on him fall.
2 Monarchs have tender, delicate children
nourished in splendor, day by day;
death soon shall banish honor and beauty;
pleasure shall vanish, forms decay.
3 But the most holy Child of salvation
gently and lowly lived below;
now as our glorious mighty Redeemer,
see him victorious o'er each foe.
4 Prophets foretold him, infant of wonder;
angels beheld him on his throne;
worthy our Savior of all their praises;
happy forever are his own.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | Child in the manger |
Title: | Child in the Manger |
Gaelic Title: | Leanabh an aigh |
Author: | Mary Macdonald of Mull |
Translator: | Lachlan McBean (1888) |
Meter: | 5.5.5.3 D |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1985 |
Topic: | Biblical Characters: Mary |
Source: | Gaelic song, 19th century |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | BUNESSAN |
Meter: | 5.5.5.3 D |
Key: | C Major |
Source: | Hebridean melody from the Isle of Mull |