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Come, ye gentles, hear the story,
How the Blessed Mother Maid
Bare on earth the King of Glory,
Lowly in a manger laid.
Came the maid with holy Joseph,
Weary from their journey far;
Seeking humble lodgment, followed
By the light of God's own Star.
Though the King of kings she carried,
No room had the Inn for them:
Since the great of David's kingdom
Gathered were at Bethlehem.
In a stable cave at midnight,
Late they found their simple rest;
With the ox and ass beside them,
And the Holy Angels blest.
There the maiden bore the Saviour,
Jesus, our Emmanuel;
Wrapped in swaddling clothes her firstborn,
Saving us from death and hell.
This, ye gentles, is the story,
How the Blessed Mother Maid
Bare on earth the King of Glory,
Lowly in a manger laid.
