Chorus:
Hail thou ever-blessed morn
Hail redemption’s happy dawn
Sing through all Jerusalem
Christ is born in Bethlehem.
- See, amid the winter’s snow,
Born for us on earth below,
See, the tender Lamb appears,
Promised from eternal years. - Lo, within a manger lies,
He who built the starry skies,
He, who throned in heights sublime,
Sits amid the cherubim. - Say, ye holy shepherds, say
What your joyful news today
Wherefore have ye left your sheep,
On the lonely mountain steep. - As we watched at dead of night,
Lo, we saw a wonderous light,
Angels, singing “peace on earth
Told us of the Saviour’s birth.” - Sacred infant all divine,
What a tender love was thine,
Thus to come from highest bliss,
Down to such a world as this.