Christmas Carol 2015-- This is my Christmas gift for you this season, though I haven't the means to readily post the melody to accompany it at present. That may follow at some later point, but be assured that my love for you and for He who showed us the way home is strong and secure, even from afar. May you also be drawn home through this marvelous gift #ASaviorIsBorn !!
How can I sing his song so far from home?
The snow won't drift into soft piles of white
No mistletoe will hang from lofty boughs
No fir nor pine trimmed gay to its full height
Nor wassail set to greet cold carolers.
How can I sing his song so far from home?
Sing it softly, sing it sweetly, sing true!
Sing it warmly, sing it gayly, sing through
Until all sad hearts feel it bear them home!
Christ left his home, descended from a throne,
Bowed to mortal state, so low he had no home,
A stranger among his own, foreign as Rome,
But yet the chos'n King of our one true home.
How can I sing his song so far from home?
Sing it softly, sing it sweetly, sing true!
Sing it warmly, sing it gayly, sing through
Until broken hearts feel it make them whole!
The babe in the manger so far from home
A man of sorrows, broken to the bone,
Rejected, alone, Forsaken by his own-
Yet it is He who now can make us one!
Oh I will sing his song this far from home!
Sing it fully, sing it dearly, sing true!
Sing it fondly, sing it boldly, sing through
Until all men through Him are yet brought home!
Beautiful, Lewis!! I wish I could hear your melody too! Merry Christmas to you and Mary Bliss!
ReplyDeleteI'm looking forward to you coming across the means to post the melody. Playing through, er, sitting next to Jake singing as he played through the melody (adding lots of extras as he usually does) of your song last year was a treat.
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