Christmas
Gentle Mary Laid Her Child
- Words:
- Joseph S. Cook, 1919.
- Music:
- 'Tempus Adest Floridum' 13th Century spring carol; first published in the Swedish Piae Cantones, 1582.
- Setting:
- "Carols Old And Carols New", 1916.
- Metre:
- 7 6 7 6 7 6 7 6
- 1Gentle Mary laid her Childlowly in a manger;There He lay, the undefiled,to the world a Stranger:Such a Babe in such a place,can He be the Savior?Ask the saved of all the racewho have found His favor.
- 2Angels sang about His birth;wise men sought and found Him;Heaven's star shone brightly forth,glory all around Him:Shepherds saw the wondrous sight,heard the angels singing;All the plains were lit that night,all the hills were ringing.
- 3Gentle Mary laid her Childlowly in a manger;He is still the undefiled,but no more a stranger:Son of God, of humble birth,beautiful the story;Praise His Name in all the earth,hail the King of glory!
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In the hymnals
- Written in 1919, the words are in 60 hymnals indexed by Hymnary.org. Their history →
- The tune, Tempus Adest Floridum, is in 116 hymnals. The tune →
Words, music and setting are in the public domain. The score is from the Open Hymnal Project (Brian J. Dumont), which places its own work in the public domain. The piano is the FluidR3 General MIDI sound font (MIT licence). How many hymnals print a hymn, and when it was written, is from Hymnary.org.