Poverty

Text: Traditional Welsh
Music: Welsh Carol
Translation: K. E. Roberts
Arrangement: Dr. Caragod Rogers
Published: Oxford University Press
Soprano: Laura Lynn Rose
Alto: Jennifer Kujawski
Tenor: Jeffrey Armstrong
Bass: Allen Fisher

All poor men and humble,
All lame men who stumble.
Come haste ye, nor feel ye afraid:
For Jesus, our treasure,
With love past all measure,
In lowly poor manager was laid.

Though wise men who found him
Laid rich gifts around him,
Yet oxen they gave him their hay:
And Jesus in beauty
Accepted their duty;
Contented in manger he lay.

Then haste we to show him
The praises we owe him:
Our service he ne’er can despise:
Whose love still is able
To show us that stable
Where softly in manger he lies.