Love Came Down at Christmas

God is love. 1 John 4:16

Words: Christina Rossetti, Time Flies: A Reading Diary 1885.

Music: Gartan Irish tune (🔊 pdf nwc).

Alternate Tune:

Love (Matthews) John S. Matthews, in Hymns of the Living Church, edited by Charles Taylor Ives & R. Huntington Woodman (New York: Century Company, 1910), number 112 (🔊 pdf nwc)

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

Worship we the Godhead,
Love incarnate, love divine;
Worship we our Jesus:
But wherewith for sacred sign?

Love shall be our token,
Love shall be yours and love be mine,
Love to God and to all men,
Love the universal sign.

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