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 Cheese from the dairy Bring they for Mary, And, not for money, Butter and honey. ℟.

Light out of star-land Leadeth from far land Princes, to meet Him, Worship and greet Him. ℟.

Myrrh from full coffer, Incense they offer: Nor is the golden Nugget withholden. ℟.

Thus they: I pray you, Up sirs, nor stay you Till ye confess Him Likewise, and bless Him. ℟.

, baby mine, in happy case: Thy guardian eyeth, face to face, Our heav'nly Father ever, To whom the darkness and the light Co-equal are: who, day and night Thy keeper, slumb'reth never. Yet know, thou child in rich array, On feather bed, that on a day Thy Maker couch'd in straw and hay.

But harder was the plank, whereon The Suff'rer mounted, woe-begone, To save thy life from danger Of leopard, bear, wolf, lion, snake. Him sing I, babe, Who for our sake Did not abhor the manger, What time the Virgin Mother kept The cratch, wherein her Darling slept, Or oft, as Man of Sorrow, wept.