Adeste Fideles. Adeste fideles, Læti triumphantes; Venite, venite in Bethlehem: Natum videte Regem angelorum: Venite adoremus, Venite adoremus, Venite adoremus Dominum. Deum de Deo, Cantet nunc aula cœlestium, In excelsis Deo! Venite, &c. Ergo qui natus Jesu tibi sit gloria: Verbum caro factum! Venite adoremus Dominum. Lo, He disdains not the Virgin's Very God, Begotten, not created: Oh, come, let us worship, &c. Sing Halleluiah, Let the courts of Heaven Ring with the Angel-chorus,Praise the Lord, Glory to God in the highest : Oh, come, let us worship, &c. Yea, Lord, we greet Thee, Born this happy morning; Jesu, to Thee be glory giv'n: Word of the Father In our flesh appearing: Oh, come, let us worship, Oh, come, let us worship, [Lord. Oh, come, let us worship Christ the Epiphany. Bethlehem! of noblest cities Thou alone the Lord from heaven Fairer than the sun at morning Was the star that told his birth; To the lands their God announcing, Hid beneath a form of earth. By its lambent beauty guided, See, the Eastern kings appear; See them bend, their gifts to offer, Gifts of incense, gold, and myrrh. Offerings of mystic meaning; Incense doth the God disclose; Gold a royal child proclaimeth; Myrrh a future tomb foreshews. O Jesu! Thou the beauty art Celestial sweetness unalloy'd! I. II. To those who fall, how kind thou art! How good to those who seek! But what to those who find? ah! this Nor tongue nor pen can shew: The love of Jesus, what it is, None but his lov'd ones know. Jesu! our only joy be thou, As thou our prize wilt be; Jesu! be thou our glory now, And through eternity. Surpassing all the joys we know, All that we can desire: III. May every heart confess thy name, And ever thee adore; And seeking thee, itself inflame To seek thee more and more. Thee may our tongues for ever bless; Thee may we love alone; And ever in our lives express The image of thine own. Who drink of thee still feel a void, Which nought but thou can fill. O my sweet Jesu! hear the sighs 1 This is commonly called St. Bernard's Hymn. |