"Now Praise We Christ, the Holy One"
                        by Dr. Martin Luther, 1483-1546
                                  Text From:
                      THE HANDBOOK TO THE LUTHERAN HYMNAL
             (St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1942), pp. 85-86


        Now Praise We Christ, the Holy One

        1. Now praise we Christ, the Holy One,
        The blessed Virgin Mary's Son,
        Far as the glorious sun doth shine,
        E'en to the world's remote confine.

        2. He who Himself all things did make
        A servant's form vouchsafed to take
        That He as man mankind might win
        And save His creatures from their sin.

        3. The grace and power of God the Lord
        Upon the mother was outpoured;
        A virgin pure and undefiled
        In wondrous wise conceived a child.

        4. The noble mother bore a Son,--
        For so did Gabriel's promise run,--
        Whom John confessed and leaped with joy
        Ere yet the mother knew her boy.

        5. Upon a manger filled with hay
        In poverty content He lay;
        With milk was fed the Lord of all,
        Who feeds the ravens when they call.

        6. The heavenly choirs rejoice and raise
        Their voice to God in songs of praise.
        To humble shepherds is proclaimed
        The Shepherd who the world hath framed.

        7. All honor unto Christ be paid,
        Pure Offspring of the favored maid,
        With Father and with Holy Ghost,
        Till time in endless time be lost.

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        Notes:
        104 from the Handbook to The Lutheran Hymnal
        Text: Phil. 2: 6,7
        Author: Martin Luther (German version), 1524,  ab.
        Poem by: Coelius Sedulius, c. 450
        Poem titled: "Paean Alphabeticus de Christo"
        Translated by: Richard Massie, 1854, alt.
        Titled: A solis ortus cardine
        Tune: Christum wir sollen loben schon
        1st Published in: "Enchiridion"
        Town: Erfurt, 1524
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