While the world awaited God�s redeeming love�
Came to Joseph, dreaming, Gabriel from above:
�God would have you take this virgin as your wife,
For the Child within her is the Lord of Life!�

Lo! the weary Family travels on its way
To the Holy City for the night to stay.
Called for an accounting unto Bethlehem�
There would the Messiah bloom from Jesse�s stem.

Since there was no place for them to settle down�
They, with beasts of burden, rested on the ground.
And in David�s City early that next morn,
Clothed in human vesture, Word of God was born.

Jesus Christ, our Savior�born upon this day:
Ox and ass surround Your bed of golden hay.
In the humble stable, manger for Your rest�
Sleep now, infant Jesus, as the world is blest!