Unto Us A Boy Is Born (Uns ist geboren ein Kindelein) German medieval recorders, gittern, glockenspiel Unto Us a Boy Is Born (Puer nobis nascitur / Uns ist geboren ein Kindelein)
Unto us a boy is born! King of all creation Came he to a world forlorn, The Lord of every nation.
Cradled in a stall was he With sleepy cows and asses; But the very beast could see That he all men surpasses.
Herod the with fear was filled: A prince, he said, in Jewry! All the little boys he killed At Bethelehem in his fury.
Now may Mary's son, who came So long ago to love us, Lead us all with hearts aflame Unto the joys above us.
Omega and Alpha he! Let the organ thunder, While the choir with peals of glee Doth render the air assunder.