See amid the winter's snow,
Born for us on earth below,
See the tender Lamb appears,

Promised from eternal years.

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Hail, thou ever-blessed morn!
Hail, redemption's happy dawn!
Sing through all Jerusalem,

Christ is born in Bethlehem.

Say, ye holy shepherds, say

What your joyful news today;
Wherefore have ye left your sheep
On the lonely mountain steep?


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Sacred infant, all divine,
What a tender love was thine,
Thus to come from highest bliss

Down to such a world as this.

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