Text: | Unto Us a Boy Is Born |
Translator: | Percy Dearmer, 1867-1936 |
Tune: | PUER NOBIS NASCITUR |
Harmonizer: | Geoffrey Shaw, 1879-1943 |
1 Unto us a boy is born!
The King of all creation,
Came he to a world forlorn,
The Lord of ev'ry nation.
2 Cradled in a stall was he
With sleepy cows and asses;
But the very beasts could see
That he the world surpasses.
3 Herod then with fear was filled:
"A prince," he said, "in Jewry!"
And all the little boys he killed
At Bethl'hem in his fury.
4 Now may Mary's son, who came
So long ago to love us,
Lead us all with hearts aflame
Unto the joys above us.
5 Alpha and Omega he!
Now let the organ thunder,
While the choir with peals of glee
Shall rend the air asunder.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | Unto us a boy is born! |
Title: | Unto Us a Boy Is Born |
Latin Title: | Puer nobis nascitur |
Translator: | Percy Dearmer, 1867-1936 |
Meter: | 7 7 7 7 |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 2011 |
Topic: | Christmas |
Source: | Latin, 15th c. |
Copyright: | Tr. © 1928, Oxford University Press |
Notes: | Now Public Domain |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | PUER NOBIS NASCITUR |
Harmonizer: | Geoffrey Shaw, 1879-1943 |
Meter: | 7 7 7 7 |
Key: | D Major |
Source: | Piae Cantiones, 1582 |
Copyright: | Harm. © A. R. Mowbray and Co., Ltd. |