| HUSH! my dear, lie still and slumber, | |
| Holy angels guard thy bed! | |
| Heavenly blessings without number | |
| Gently falling on thy head. | |
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| Sleep, my babe; thy food and raiment, | 5 |
| House and home, thy friends provide; | |
| All without thy care or payment: | |
| All thy wants are well supplied. | |
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| How much better thou'rt attended | |
| Than the Son of God could be, | 10 |
| When from heaven He descended | |
| And became a child like thee! | |
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| Soft and easy is thy cradle: | |
| Coarse and hard thy Saviour lay, | |
| When His birthplace was a stable | 15 |
| And His softest bed was hay. | |
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| Blessèd babe! what glorious features— | |
| Spotless fair, divinely bright! | |
| Must He dwell with brutal creatures? | |
| How could angels bear the sight? | 20 |
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| Was there nothing but a manger | |
| Cursèd sinners could afford | |
| To receive the heavenly stranger? | |
| Did they thus affront their Lord? | |
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| Soft, my child: I did not chide thee, | 25 |
| Though my song might sound too hard; | |
| 'Tis thy mother sits beside thee, | |
| And her arms shall be thy guard. | |
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| Yet to read the shameful story | |
| How the Jews abused their King, | 30 |
| How they served the Lord of Glory, | |
| Makes me angry while I sing. | |
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| See the kinder shepherds round Him, | |
| Telling wonders from the sky! | |
| Where they sought Him, there they found Him, | 35 |
| With His Virgin mother by. | |
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| See the lovely babe a-dressing; | |
| Lovely infant, how He smiled! | |
| When He wept, the mother's blessing | |
| Soothed and hush'd the holy child. | 40 |
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| Lo, He slumbers in His manger, | |
| Where the hornèd oxen fed: | |
| Peace, my darling; here 's no danger, | |
| Here 's no ox anear thy bed. | |
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| 'Twas to save thee, child, from dying, | 45 |
| Save my dear from burning flame, | |
| Bitter groans and endless crying, | |
| That thy blest Redeemer came. | |
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| May'st thou live to know and fear Him, | |
| Trust and love Him all thy days; | 50 |
| Then go dwell for ever near Him, | |
| See His face, and sing His praise! | |
