The Maker of the sun and moon,

The Maker of our earth,

Lo! late in time, a fairer boon,

Himself is brought to birth!


How blest was all creation then,

When God so gave increase;

And Christ, to heal the hearts of men,

Brought righteousness and peace!


No star in all the heights of heaven

But burned to see Him go;

Yet unto earth alone was given

His human form to know.


His human form, by man denied,

Took death for human sin:

His endless love, through faith descried,

Still lives the world to win.


O perfect love, outpassing sight,

O light beyond our ken,

Come down through all the world tonight,

And heal the hearts of men!