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Good people all, this Christmas-time, |
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Consider well and bear in mind |
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What our good God for us has done, |
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In sending His beloved Son. |
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With Mary holy we should pray |
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To God with love this Christmas Day: |
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In Bethlehem upon that morn |
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There was a blessed Messiah born. |
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Near Bethlehem did shepherds keep |
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Their flocks of lambs and feeding sheep; |
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To whom God's angels did appear, |
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Which put the shepherds in great fear. |
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"Prepare and go," the angels said, |
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"To Bethlehem, be not afraid; |
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For there you'll find, this happy morn, |
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A princely Babe, sweet Jesus born." |
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With thankful heart and joyful mind, |
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The shepherds went the Babe to find, |
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And as God's angel had foretold, |
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They did our Saviour Christ behold. |
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Within a manger He was laid, |
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And by his side the Virgin Maid, |
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As long foretold, there was a blessed Messiah born |
