See, Amid the Winter's Snow
- Renée Coventry
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One of the reasons the Advent season is so special for Christians is that God has come down to earth to redeem humanity. Christ’s divinity and sacrifice ensured our salvation. See, Amid the Winter’s Snow is an English Christmas carol written by Edward Caswall and first published in 1858. John Goss would later add music to the verses.
The carol’s message is the love of God that compels Him to act on behalf of a world that is not what He created it to be. The prayer of the lyrics is that we, too, walk in humility, with meekness and mildness. If God can stoop to our level, should we not, too, stoop to reach those who are lost?
See, Amid the Winter’s Snow
See, amid the winter’s snow,
Born for us on earth below,
See, the tender Lamb appears,
Promised from eternal years!
Refrain:
Hail, thou ever blessed morn!
Hail, Redemption’s happy dawn!
Sing through all Jerusalem:
‘Christ is born in Bethlehem!’
Lo! Within a manger lies
He who built the starry skies,
He who, throned in height sublime,
Sits amid the Cherubim.
Say, ye holy shepherds, say:
What your joyful news today?
Wherefore have ye left your sheep
On the lonely mountains steep?
‘As we watched at dead of night,
Lo! We saw a wondrous light;
Angels, singing “Peace on earth,”
Told us of the Saviour’s birth.’
Sacred Infant, all-divine,
What a tender love was thine
Thus to come from highest bliss
Down to such a world as this!
Teach, oh teach us, holy Child,
By Thy face so meek and mild,
Teach us to resemble Thee
In Thy sweet humility!
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