May our King, who promises to come again, reveal himself to you in a new way this Advent.
DECEMBER 10
Once in Royal David's City
Text by Cecil F. Alexander (1848)
Hymn Tune: "Irby" by Henry J. Gauntlett (1849)
Performed by the Choir of King's College, Cambridge
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, our Savior Holy
And through all his wondrous childhood he would honor and obey,
Love, and a watch the lowly maiden in whose gentle arms he lay
Little children all must 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 has 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
