Carol of the Magi

Lyrics

We rode all night through fields of darkness Our guiding light the Eastern star; We came to Bethlehem, we all were weary: We'd travelled far that night, we'd travelled far We heard that here we'd find Messiah Foretold by seers from days of old; We looked for palaces and found a stable: Could it be here, so bare and cold? We entered in and there wе saw him; It seemed we'd known him from long beforе: A child like any child, yet somehow different: The face of every child in him we saw We'd brought him gifts, and now we offered them; We knelt down low in silent prayer With eyes that seemed to know both joy and sadness The child looked down as we knelt there So long ago, yet I remember That child who lay at Mary's knee; How strange that every child seems so much like him: His is the face I seem to see