Christmastide: Its History, Festivities, and Carols

by William Sandys

As the angels before did say,

So it came to passe;

As the angels before did say,

The found a babe where it lay.

In a manger wrapt in hay,

So poor he was.

In Bethlem he was borne,

O thou man, O thou man!

In Bethlem he was borne,

For mankind sake;