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[[sheet music]]

R.L. McAll, Christmas, 1952

1. In num-bers and but these few, I sing Thy birth, O Je-su! Thou pret-ty 
2. In-stead of neat in-clo-sures Of in-ter-wov-en o-siers; In-stead of
Ba-by born here, With sup'ra-bun-dant scorn here; Who for Thy prince-ly
fra-grant po-sies of daf-fo-dils, and ro-sies;
Thy cradle, King-ly 
port here, Hadst for Thy place of birth a base Out-sta-ble for Thy court here.
Stran-ger, As Gos-pel tells, was no-thing else
But, here, a home-ly man-ger.

3. But we with silks, not cruells,*
With sundry precious jewels
And lily-work will dress Thee:
And, as we dispossess Thee
Of clouds, we'll make a chamber
Sweet Babe, for Thee,
of ivory,
And plaster'd round with amber.

*Worsteds

4. The Jews, they did distain Thee,
But we will entertain Thee
With glories to await here
Upon Thy princely state here;
And more for love than pity,
From year to year
We'll make Thee, here,
A free-born of our city.

Music Copyright, 1952, Reginald L. McAll

ROBERT HERRICK
1591-1674
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