Once David's Royal City lyrics

once in royal david city stood a lowly cattle shed there a mother laid her baby in a manger for His bed mary was that mother mild Jesus Christ her little child He came down to earth from heaven who is God and Lord of all and His shelter was a stable and His cradle was a stall with the poor, oppressed and wholly lived on earth our savior holy and our eyes at last shall see Him through His own redeeming love for that child, so dear and gentle is our Lord in heaven above and He leads His children along to the place that He is gone