Come celebrate this newborn child of God

Come celebrate this newborn child of God!

Sing songs of joy and shout your praise abroad.

Behold this wonder! Let your hearts be awed! 

Alleluia! Alleluia!

 

See how this babe, who looks so frail and small,

Is yet a child of God our all in all 

And will, one day, hear God's own holy call.

Alleluia! Alleluia!

 

Now let us all, here gathered in God's name,

Bear witness to God's honor and God's fame

So this same child might our true Savior claim.

Alleluia! Alleluia!

 

Give thanks to God, Creator of us all,

And to our Lord, once born like this child small,

And Spirit true who will not let us fall.

Alleluia! Alleluia!

 

 

TEXT: Charles Spence Freeman, March 2022.

MUSIC: Tune SINE NOMINE, Ralph Vaughan Williams, 1906.

Written in honor of the (then-forthcoming, now-accomplished) birth of Mary Evelyn Traynham to Anna and Blake Traynham.