Introduction
Words: Alice J. Cleator, 1903.
Music: Charles H. Gabriel (🔊 pdf nwc).
If you know where to get a good photo of Cleator (head & shoulders, at least 200×300 pixels),
Unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.
Luke 2:11
Words: Alice J. Cleator, 1903.
Music: Charles H. Gabriel (🔊 pdf nwc).
If you know where to get a good photo of Cleator (head & shoulders, at least 200×300 pixels),
O the song that echoed from starry spheres,
And hushed the wondering shepherds’ fears,
Is still the same thro’ the changing years—
It never shall pass away!
Refrain
It never shall pass away,
While shineth the sun’s bright ray:
Earth pauses each year that story to hear—
It never shall pass away!
Tho’ the ages pass with a solemn tread,
Tho’ pomp and pride of the past is dead,
Still lives the song of that night long fled—
It never shall pass away!
Refrain
Unto every nation, in every clime,
That song shall ring in glad hymn and chime;
Its joy shall live thro’ the realms of time—
It never shall pass away!
Refrain