Unto Us a Boy Is Born

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Unto us a boy is born

Translator: Percy Dearmer (1928)
Tune: PUER NOBIS
Published in 32 hymnals

Piano/Organ
	From Advent to Epiphany (Organ & Piano D…

Handbells
	UNTO US A CHILD IS BORN

Choral
	A Child Is Born for Us This Day

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1 Unto us a boy is born!
King of all creation,
came he to a world forlorn,
the Lord of every nation,
the Lord of every nation.

2 Cradled in a stall was he
with sleepy cows and asses;
but the very beasts could see
that he all folk surpasses,
that he all folk surpasses.

3 Herod then with fear was filled;
'A prince', he said, 'in Jewry!'
All the little boys he killed
at Bethl'em in his fury,
at Bethl'em in his fury.

4 Now may Mary's son, who came
so long ago to love us,
lead us all with hearts aflame
unto the joys above us,
unto the joys above us.

5 Omega and Alpha he!
Let the organ thunder,
while we sing our songs with glee
and rend the air asunder,
and rend the air asunder.

Source: Church Hymnary, Fourth Edition #331

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Translator: Percy Dearmer

Percy Dearmer, (27 February 1867 – 29 May 1936) was an English priest and liturgist best known as the author of The Parson's Handbook, a liturgical manual for Anglican clergy. A lifelong socialist, he was an early advocate of the public ministry of women (but not their ordination to the priesthood) and concerned with social justice. Dearmer also had a strong influence on the music of the church and, with Ralph Vaughan Williams and Martin Shaw, is credited with the revival and spread of traditional and medieval English musical forms. Born in Kilburn, Middlesex, to an artistic family—his father, Thomas Dearmer, was an artist and drawing instructor. Dearmer attended Streatham School and Westminster School (1880–1881), before moving on… Go to person page >

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First Line:	Unto us a boy is born
Title:	Unto Us a Boy Is Born
Translator:	Percy Dearmer (1928)
Meter:	7.6.7.7.7
Source:	Latin carol, 15th cent.
Language:	English
Copyright:	From The Oxford Book of Carols © 1964. Oxford University Press.

Matthew 2:16-18 (hymns)

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PUER NOBIS

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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