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I send you the lyrics of

LET US THE INFANT GREET
THE WEXFORD CAROL
LET ALL THAT ARE TO MIRTH INCLINED

As sung by Loreena McKennitt in the CD "To drive the cold winter away"

Bye

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LET US THE INFANT GREET
(Traditional English)

Let us the Infant greet,
In worship before Him fall,
And let us pay Him homage meet,
On this His Festival

Let us to Infant sing,
and bring Him of gifts rich store
Let us honour our Infant King
With praise for evermore

Let us to the Infant kneel
And love Him with faithful love,
And let our joyous anthems peal,
for Him who reigns above

Glad hymns in the Infant's laud,
Sing we to Him while we may,
In heaven where He is throned as God
Our service He will pay

Be to the Infant true
While we are dwelling on mould
and He will give us our wages due
A crown of purest gold

(recorded by Loreena McKennitt at Glenstal Abbey, Ireland)


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THE WEXFORD CAROL
(Traditional Irish)

Good people all, this Christmas-time
Consider well and bear in mind
What our God for us has done
In sending his beloved son
With Mary holy we should pray
The God with love this Christmas day;
In Bethlehem upon this morn
There was a blessed Messiah born

The night before that happy tide
The noble Virgin and her guide
Were long time seeking up and down
To find a lodging in the town
But mark how all things came to pass
From every door repelled alas!
As long foretold, their refuge all
Was but an humble ox's stall

There were three wise men from afar
Directed by a glorious star
And on they wandered night and day
Until they came where Jesus lay
And when they came into that place
Where our beloved Messiah was
They humbly cast them at his feet
With gifts of gold and incense sweet

Near Bethlehem did shepherds keep
Their flocks of lambs and feeding sheep
To whom God angels did appear
Which put the shepherds in great fear
'Prepare and go' the angels said
'To Bethlehem' be no afraid
For there you'll find, this happy morn,
A princely babe, sweet Jesus born

With thankful heart and joyful mind
The shepherds went to babe to find
And as God's angel had foretold
They did our Saviour Christ behold
Within a manger he was laid
And by his side the virgin maid
Attending on the Lord of life
Who came on earth to end all strife

(recorded by Loreena McKennitt at Church of Our Lady, Guelph)


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LET ALL THAT ARE TO MIRTH INCLINED
(Traditional English)

Let all that are to mirth inclined
Consider well and bear in mind
What our God for us has done
In sending his beloved Son

For to redeem our souls from thrall
Christ is the saviour of us all

The twenty-fifth day of December
We have good cause to remember
In Bethlehem upon that morn
There was a blessed Messiah born

But mark how all things came to pass
The inn and lodging filled was
That they could find no room at all
But in a straw-filled ox's stall

Near Bethlehem some shepherds keep
Their flock and herd of feeding sheep
To whom God's angels did appear
Which put the shepherds in great fear

With thankful hearth and joyful mind
The shepherds went this babe to find
And as the heavenly angel told
They did our Saviour Christ behold

Three eastern wise men from afar
Directed by a glorious star
Came boldly on? and made no stay
Until they came where Jesus lay

And being come unto that place
Where the blessed Messiah was
They humbly laid before his feet
Their gifts of gold and incense sweet

See how the Lord of heaven and earth
Shewd himself lowly in his birth
A sweet example of mankind
To learn to bear an humble mind

Let all your songs and praises be
Unto his heavenly majesty
And evermore amongst our mirth
Remember Christ our Saviour's birth

(recorded by Loreena McKennitt at Glenstal Abbey, Ireland)