Chorale Book for England

||:Let us all with gladsome voice

Praise the God of heaven,:||

Who to bid our hearts rejoice

His own Son hath given.

||:Down to this sad earth He comes,

Here to serve us deigning,:||

That with Him in yon fair homes

We may once be reigning.

||:We are rich, for He was poor,

Gaze upon this wonder!:||

Let us praise God evermore,

Here on earth, and yonder!

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||:Look on all who sorrow here,

Lord, in pity bending,:||

Grant us now a glad New Year,

And a blessed ending!