Tune title: Humility/Oxford

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Sung to the following words:

Verse 1. See, amid the winter's snow,
Born for us on Earth below.
See, the Lamb of God appears,
Pro-mised from eternal years.

Verse 2. Lo, within a manger lies
He who built the starry skies
He who throned in height sublime
Sits amid the cherubim

Verse 3. Say ye holy shepherds, say
What your joyful news today
Wherefore have ye left your sheep
On the lonely mountain steep

Verse 4. As we watched at dead of night
Lo, we saw a wondrous light
Angels, singing peace on Earth
Told us of the Saviour's birth

Verse 5. Sacred Infant, all divine
What a tender love was thine
Thus to come to highest bliss
Down to such a world as this

Verse 6. Teach, O teach us, holy child
By Thy face so meek and mild
Teach us to resemble Thee
In the sweet humility

Chorus Hail, thou ever blessed morn!
Hail, redemption's happy dawn!
Sing through all Jerusalem,
Christ is born in Bethlehem.