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alec roth - song of the shepherds lyrics

come we shepherds whose blest sight
hath met love’s noon in nature’s night;
come lift we up our lofty song
to wake the sun that sleeps too long

gloomy night embraced the place
where the n0ble infant lay
the babe looked up and showed his face;
in spite of darkness, it was day
it was thy day, sweet and did rise
not from the east, but from thine eyes

welcome to our wond’ring sight!
eternity shut in a span! summer in winter! day in night!
heaven in earth, and god in man!
great littlе one, whose glorious birth
lifts earth to hеaven, stoops heaven to earth

we saw thee in thy balmy nest
bright dawn of our eternal day;
we saw thine eyes break from the east
and chase the trembling shades away
we saw thee, and we blessed the sight;
we saw thee by thine own sweet light

poor world (said i) what wilt thou do
to entertain this starry stranger?
is this the best thou canst bestow?
a cold and not too cleanly manger?
contend, ye powers of heaven and earth
to fit a bed for this huge birth
i saw the curled drops, soft and slow
come hovering o’er the place’s head
off’ring their whitest sheets of snow
to furnish the fair infant’s bed
forbear (said i), be not too bold;
your fleece is white but ‘tis too cold

i saw th’officious angels bring
the down that their soft br++sts did strow
for well they now can spare their wings
when heaven itself lies here below
forbear (said i), be not too rough;
thy down though soft’s not soft enough

the babe no sooner ’gan to seek
where to lay his lovely head
but straight his eyes advised his cheek
’twixt mother’s br++sts to go to bed
sweet choice (said i), no way but so
not to lie cold, yet sleep in snow

- alec roth lyrics

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