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Text:Once To Our World There Came
Author:Elizabeth Strafford
Tune:ARRAN
Composer:Samuel Sebastian Wesley
Media:MIDI file

10106. Once To Our World There Came

1 Once to our world there came
A little holy child;
Gentle and good and mild,
And Jesus was His name.

2 He suffered want and pain,
Was slighted, scorned, and poor;
All this He did endure,
That we in Heaven might reign.

3 He never disobeyed
His Father’s sacred laws;
We only were the cause
Why grief on Him was laid.

4 O! that indeed we could
Our naughty ways forsake
And for our pattern take
The Savior kind and good.

5 The path that Jesus trod,
O may we also tread!
Jesus, our living head,
Lead Thou us up to God.

Text Information
First Line: Once to our world there came
Title: Once To Our World There Came
Author: Elizabeth Strafford
Meter: 66.66
Language: English
Source: Hymns for the Collects Throughout the Year 1857
Copyright: Public Domain
Tune Information
Name: ARRAN
Composer: Samuel Sebastian Wesley (1864)
Meter: 66.66
Key: F Major
Source: A Selection of Psalms and Hymns by Charles Kemble (London: John F. Shaw, 1864)
Copyright: Public Domain



Media
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MIDI file: Midi
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