Text:Love Came Down at Christmas
Author:Christina Rossetti
Tune:GARTAN
Harmonizer:David Evans

147. Love Came Down at Christmas

1 Love came down at Christmas,
Love all lovely, Love divine;
Love was born at Christmas;
star and angels gave the sign.

2 Worship we the Godhead,
Love incarnate, Love divine;
worship we our Jesus,
but wherewith for sacred sign?

3 Love shall be our token;
love be yours and love be mine;
love to God and others,
love for plea and gift and sign.

Text Information
First Line: Love came down at Christmas
Title: Love Came Down at Christmas
Author: Christina Rossetti (1855, alt.)
Meter: 6.7.6.7
Language: English
Publication Date: 2010
Topic: God the Son: Christmastide; Christian Year-Christmastide; Jesus Christ-Love For Us
Tune Information
Name: GARTAN
Harmonizer: David Evans (1927, alt.)
Meter: 6.7.6.7
Key: F Major
Source: Trad. Irish melody, alt.
Copyright: © 1927 from the Revised Church Hymnary, 1927. Reproduced by permission of Oxford University Press
Notes: Lower key, #681



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