Christmas
The Happy Christmas Comes Once More
- Words:
- Nikolai F. S. Grundtvig, Tr. by Charles Porterfield Krauth
- Music:
- Carl C. N. Balle
Sheet music
- 1The happy Christmas comes once more,The heav’nly guest is at the door,The blessed words the shepherds thrill,The joyous tidings, “Peace, goodwill.”The lowly Savior meekly lies,Laid off the splendor of the skies;No crown bedecks His forehead fair,No pearl, nor gem, nor silk is there.
- 2O wake, our hearts, in gladness sing,And keep our Christmas with our King,Till living song, from loving souls,Like sound of mighty water rolls.Thou patriarchs’ joy, thou prophets’ song,Thou heav’nly Dayspring, looked for long,Thou Son of Man, Incarnate Word,Great David’s Son, great David’s Lord.
- 3O holy Child, thy manger gleamsTill earth and heav’n glow with its beams,Till midnight noon’s broad light hath won,And Jacob’s star outshines the sun.Come, Jesus, glorious heav’nly guest,Keep thine own Christmas in our breast,Then David’s harp-strings, hushed so long,Shall swell our jubilee of song.Amen.
In the hymnals
- The words are in 45 hymnals indexed by Hymnary.org. Their history →
Words, music and setting are in the public domain. The sheet music and words are from PDHymns.com. 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.