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Text:Where is this stupendous stranger?
Author:Christopher Smart, 1722-1771
Tune:HALTON HOLGATE
Composer:William Boyce, 1711-1779

75a. Where is this stupendous stranger?

1 Where is this stupendous stranger?
prophets, shepherds, kings, advise:
lead me to my Master's manger,
show me where my Saviour lies.

2 O most mighty, O most holy,
far beyond the seraph’s thought!
Art thou then so mean and lowly
as unheeded prophets taught?

3 O the magnitude of meekness,
worth from worth immortal sprung!
O the strength of infant weakness,
if eternal is so young!

4 God all-bounteous, all-creative,
whom no ills from good dissuade,
is incarnate, and a native
of the very world he made.

Text Information
First Line: Where is this stupendous stranger?
Author: Christopher Smart, 1722-1771 (alt.)
Refrain First Line:
Meter: 87 87
Language: English
Publication Date: 2000
Scripture: ; ; ; ; ;
Topic: Christmas; Advent IV: Year A; Advent IV: Year C (1 more...)
Tune Information
Name: HALTON HOLGATE
Composer: William Boyce, 1711-1779
Meter: 87 87
Key: D Major



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