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Text:Love Came Down at Christmass
Author:Christina Rossetti
Tune:CULBACH

110. Love Came Down at Christmass

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

2 Worship we the Godhead,
Love incarnate, Love divine;
worship we our Jesus,
but wherewith for sacred sign?

3 Love shall be our token;
love be yours and love be mine;
love to God and others,
love for plea and gift and sign.

Text Information
First Line: Love came down at Christmas
Title: Love Came Down at Christmass
Author: Christina Rossetti (1855)
Meter: 6.7.6.7
Language: English
Publication Date: 2017
Topic: Jesus Christ: Incarnation
Tune Information
Name: CULBACH
Meter: 6.7.6.7
Key: B♭ Major
Source: Scheffler's Heilige Seelenlust, 1657



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