Автор мелодии: Charles Coffin
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Let sighing cease and woe
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God from on high hath heard
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Heavns gate is opening wide,
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And lo! The long expected word
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Peace, thro the deep of night
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The heavnly quire breaks forth
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Singing with festal songs and bright
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Our God and Saviors birth
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The cave of Bethlehem
Those wakeful shepherds seek
Let us to rise and greet with them
That infant pure and meek
We enter at the door
What marvel meets the eye
A crib a mother pale and poor
A child of poverty
Verse 3:
Art thou eternal Son
The eternal Fathers ray
Whose little hand thou infant one
Doth lift the world always
Yes faith through that dim cloud
Like lightning darts before
And in our hearts O babe divine
Be born abide and grow
Verse 4:
So shall thy birthday morn
Lord Christ our birthday be
Then greet we all ourselves new born
Our Kings nativity
Borne at a virgins breast
Jesus be praise to thee
With sire and Holy Spirit blest
Through all eternity