Tune: Heinlein
(\'Forty days and forty nights\')
Matthew 2 v.1-6 and v.16-21
For Holy Innocents Day: Dec 28.
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Holy Innocents were slain
Horror, anguish, torment, pain
All the boys age under two
Massacred, dread sight to view
For King Herod troubled be
When herd of new-born King, see
In Bethlehem, it Jesus
Brings salvation unto us
There the little family
Joseph, Mary, Jesus be
Angel in a dream there warned
Not to turn where evil dawned
But unto Egypt escape
From where jaws of death did gape
Until Herod was dead they
Stayed, remained there night and day
Then was fulfilled prophecy
Of Jeremiah surely
Voices heard, weepings, laments
Hearts and lives with sorrows rent
They wept, would not comforted
Be, for their little boys dead
Lord, help us not complacent
Be, but pursue good intents