orchidee

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Tune: Stuttgart

(\'Earth has many a noble city\')

Matthew 2 v.19-23

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When King Herod was dead, behold

And angel of the Lord told

Joseph in a dream, directing

Him, the Lord\'s hand them guiding

 

Angel said, Take Mary, your wife

And you child, Jesus, whose life

They who sought to destroy, they be

Dead now, return home safely

 

Return from Egypt to Israel

Did little family well

But when they heard in Herod\'s place

Archelaus ruled, they did face

 

Did face fear, for Archelaus be

Herod\'s son there, they did see

In Judea\'s region, but still

An angel warned them of ill

 

Showed Joseph in a dream again

To turn to Nazareth then

In Galilee, true prophecy

Christ a Nazarene shall be

 

It town where angel Gabriel

Announced unto Mary all

News of Christ-child that she would bear

Nazareth, their home town fair