"Here is the Little Door" - text by Frances Chesterton.

Video here - https://youtu.be/jtTXZ9nz-xU (We usually keep Lessons and Carols to Advent-only texts, but made an exception here.) I hope my overly large conducting gestures aren't too distracting to watch.

A couple lines switched around - the verses in brackets below form the original first couplet of V2.

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1.

Here is the little door,
lift up the latch, oh lift!
We need not wander more,
but enter with our gift;
Our gift of finest gold.
Gold that was never bought or sold;
Myrrh to be strewn about his bed;
Incense in clouds about His head;
All for the child that stirs not in His sleep,
But holy slumber hold with ass and sheep.

2.

See how His eyes awake,
Lift up your hands, O lift!
[Bend low about His bed,
For each He has a gift;]
For gold, He gives a keen-edged sword.
(Defend with it thy little Lord!)
For incense, smoke of battle red,
Myrrh for the honoured happy dead;
Gifts for His children, terrible and sweet;
Touched by such tiny hands,
and Oh such tiny feet.