Текст песни Once in Royal David''s City - Henry Gauntlet, Choir of King's College, Cambridge, Stephen Cleobury & Guy Johnston

Once in royal Davids city,
Stood a lowly cattle shed,
Where a mother laid her Baby,
In a manger for His bed:
Mary was that mother mild,
Jesus Christ, her little Child.

He came down to earth from heaven,
Who is God and Lord of 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.

And through all his wonders
Childhood
He would honour and obey
Love and watch the lowly maiden
In whose gentle arms he lay
Cristian children all must be
Mild, obedient good as he

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.

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.

Not in that poor lowly stable
With the oxen standing by
We shall see him: but in heaven
Set as Gods wright hand on high
When like stars his children crowned
All in white shall what around