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Text:Her Virgin eyes saw God incarnate born
Author:Thomas Ken
Tune:FARLEY CASTLE
Composer:Henry Lawes, 1596-1662

239. Her Virgin eyes saw God incarnate born

1 Her Virgin eyes saw God incarnate born,
when she to Bethlem came that happy morn:
how high her raptures then began to swell,
none but her own omniscient Son can tell.

2 As Eve, when she her fontal sin reviewed,
wept for herself and all she should include,
blest Mary, with man's Saviour in embrace,
joyed for herself and for all human race.

3 All saints are by her Son's dear influence blest;
she kept the very fountain at her breast:
the Son adored and nursed by the sweet Maid
a thousandfold of love for love repaid.

4 Heaven with transcendent joys her entrance graced,
near to his throne her Son his Mother placed;
and here below, now she's of heaven possest,
all generations are to call her blest.

Text Information
First Line: Her Virgin eyes saw God incarnate born
Author: Thomas Ken
Meter: 10 10 10 10
Language: English
Publication Date: 2000
Scripture: ; ;
Topic: Blessed Virgin Mary
Tune Information
Name: FARLEY CASTLE
Composer: Henry Lawes, 1596-1662
Meter: 10 10 10 10
Key: D Major



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