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Cyber Hymnal entry for Once in Royal David's City:
:http://www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/o/n/onceirdc.htm


==Original text and translations==
==Original text and translations==


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:Once in royal David's city  
:Once in royal David's city  
:stood a lowly cattleshed,
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:all in white shall wait around.
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General Information

Title: Once in Royal David's City
Composer: Henry J. Gauntlett

Number of voices: 3 or 4vv  Voicing: SAB or SATB
Genre: Sacred, Carols
Language: English
Instruments: none
Published:

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Cyber Hymnal entry for Once in Royal David's City:

http://www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/o/n/onceirdc.htm

Original text and translations

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1.

Once in royal David's city
stood a lowly cattleshed,
where a mother laid her baby
in a manger for his bed:
Mary was that mother mild,
Jesus Christ her little child.

2.

He came down to earth from heaven
Who is God and Lord af all,
And his shelter was a stable,
And his cradle was a stall.
With the poor and mean and lowly
Lived on earth our Saviour holy.

3.

And through all his wondrous childhood
He would honour and obey,
Love and watch the lowly maiden,
In whose gentle arms he lay:
Christian children all must be
Mild, obedient, good as he.

4.

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.

5.

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.

6.

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.