how do you capture the wind on the water?
how do you count all the stars in the sky?
how can you measure the love of mother
or how can you write down a baby's first cry?
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candle light, angle-light firelight and star glow
shine on his cradle till breaking of dawn
gloria, gloria in excelsis deo
angels are singing the christ child is born.
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shepards and wise men will kneel and adore him
seraphim round him their vigil will keep
nations procalim him their lord and their saviour
but mary will hold him and sing him to sleep
find him at bethelehem laid in a manger
christ our redeemer asleep in the hay
god head incarnate and hope of salvation a child
with his mother that first christmas day