Religion
To-day Was Born Our Saviour
Translated by Jessie L. Weston (1914) · From The Chief Middle English Poets (1914)
Make we merry in hall and bower,
To-day was born Our Saviour
To-day hath God, of His Mercie
Sent His Son with man to be,
To dwell with us in veritie,
God that is Our Saviour!
To-day in Bethlehem did befall
A Child was born in ox's stall,
Who needs must die to save us all,
God that is Our Saviour!
To-day there spake an angel bright
To shepherds three, who watched by night,
And bade them take their way forthright
To God, that is Our Saviour!
Therefore, 't is meet we kneel to-day
And Christ Who died on Cross we pray
To shew His Grace to us alway,
God that is Our Saviour!
Codex Note
A carol from the Hill MS. (Balliol College, Oxford), the commonplace book of a sixteenth-century London merchant; Weston translates from Fluegel’s edition in Anglia, vol. 26.
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Anonymous (Middle English). “To-day Was Born Our Saviour.” Translated by Jessie L. Weston. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-middle-english/115/.
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Anonymous (Middle English). “To-day Was Born Our Saviour.” Translated by Jessie L. Weston. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-middle-english/115/.
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