Holy Child Lyrics

Holy child, how still you lie

Safe the manger, soft the hay

Faint upon the eastern sky

Breaks the dawn of Christmas Day

Christmas Day.

Holy child, whose birthday brings

Shepherds from their fields and fold,

Angel choirs and eastern kings,

Myrrh and frankincense and gold

Christmas Day.

Holy child - what gift of grace

From the Father freely willed

In your infant form we trace

All God's promises fulfilled

Christmas Day.

Holy child, whose human years

Span like ours delight and pain

One in human joys and tears

One in all but sin and stain.

Holy child, so far from home,

All the lost to seek and save,

To what dreadful death you come,

To what dark and silent grave.

Holy child, before whose name

Powers of darkness faint and fall

Conquered death and sin and shame

Jesus Christ is Lord of all

Holy child, how still you lie

Safe the manger, soft the hay

Clear upon the eastern sky

Breaks the dawn of Christmas Day

Christmas Day.