TUNE--'God rest ye, merry gentleman.' <br /> <br />GOD rest ye, merry gentlemen; let nothing you dismay, <br />For Jesus Christ, our Saviour, was born on Christmas-day. <br />The dawn rose red o'er Bethlehem, the stars shone through the gray, <br />When Jesus Christ, our Saviour, was born on Christmas-day. <br /> <br />God rest ye, little children; let nothing you affright, <br />For Jesus Christ, your Saviour, was born this happy night; <br />Along the hills of Galilee the white flocks sleeping lay, <br />When Christ, the Child of Nazareth, was born on Christmas-day. <br /> <br />God rest ye, all good Christians; upon this blessed morn <br />The Lord of all good Christians was of a woman born: <br />Now all your sorrows He doth heal, your sins He takes away; <br />For Jesus Christ, our Saviour, was born on Christmas-day.<br /><br />Dinah Maria Mulock Craik<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-christmas-carol-10/
