Once in royal David's city   Stood a lowly cattle shed   There a mother laid her baby   In a manger for His bed   Mary was that mother mild   Jesus Christ her little child      He came down to earth from heaven   Who is God and Lord of all   And His shelter was a stable   And His cradle was a stall   With the poor, oppressed and wholly   Lived on earth our Savior holy      And our eyes   At last shall see Him   Through His own redeeming love   For that child, so dear and gentle   Is our Lord in heaven above   And He leads His children along   To the place that He is gone