Once in Royal David’s city\nStood a lowly cattle shed,\nWhere a Mother laid her Baby\nIn a manger for his bed:\nMary was that Mother mild,\nJesus Christ her little child.\n2. He came down to earth from heaven,\nWho is God and Lord of all,\nAnd his shelter was a stable,\nAnd his cradle was a stall;\nWith the poor, and mean, and lowly,\nLived on earth our Saviour holy.\n3. And through all his wondrous childhood\nHe would honour and obey,\nLove, and watch the lowly Maiden,\nIn whose gentle arms he lay;\nChristian children all must be\nMild, obedient, good as he.\n4. For he is our childhood’s pattern,\nDay by day like us he grew,\nHe was little, weak, and helpless,\nTears and smiles like us he knew;\nAnd he feeleth for our sadness,\nAnd he shareth in our gladness.\n5. And our eyes at last shall see him,\nThrough his own redeeming love,\nFor that Child so dear and gentle\nIs our Lord in heaven above;\nAnd he leads his children on\nTo the place where he is gone.\n6. Not in that poor lowly stable,\nWith the oxen standing by,\nWe shall see him; but in heaven,\nSet at God’s right hand on high;\nWhen like stars his children crowned\nAll in white shall wait around.