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The Cambridge Carol Book/As I went to Bethlehem

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Note from choral edition: "Words by G. R. W. A free translation of Quem vidistis, pastores (an Antiphon at Lauds, etc., on Christmas Day)."

AnonymousCharles Wood & George Ratcliffe Woodward4370488The Cambridge Carol Book — As I went to Bethlehem1924George Ratcliffe Woodward


II. AS I WENT TO BETHLEHEM

1.As I went to Bethlehem,
Ere the dawn of day,
Met I with a knot of shepherd men,
On their homeward way.

2.Quem vidistis, pastores?
Tell me ev'ry whit:
In terris (I fain would learn of ye)
Quis apparuit?

3.Newly born we saw the Babe,
Whom an Angel throng
Worshipt as the Lord; Alléluyá,
Gloria, their song.