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And may the promise of Advent be yours this day and always.

Come, Jesus, Holy Child to Me

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Translator: Paul Zeller Strodach

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Text Information

First Line: Come, Jesus, Holy Child, to me
Title: Come, Jesus, Holy Child to Me
Original Language: German
Translator: Paul Zeller Strodach (1928)
Source: Hofgesangbuch, 1672
Language: English
Copyright: Trans. © United Lutheran Church In America, Board of Publication

Tune

PUER NOBIS NASCITUR

PUER NOBIS is a melody from a fifteenth-century manuscript from Trier. However, the tune probably dates from an earlier time and may even have folk roots. PUER NOBIS was altered in Spangenberg's Christliches GesangbUchlein (1568), in Petri's famous Piae Cantiones (1582), and again in Praetorius's (P…

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[Ach lieber Gott behüte mich und meine Eltern gnädiglich]


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