In Dulce Jubilo - Mediaeval Baebes

In Dulci Jubilo

In dulci jubilo Let us our homage show;

Our heart’s joy reclineth in praesepio

And like a bright star shineth, Matris in gremio.

Alpha es et O, Alpha es et O.

O Jesu parvule!

I yearn for thee alway!

Hear me, I beseech thee, O puer optime!

My prayer let it reach thee,/ O Princeps gloriae!

Trahe me post te!

Trahe me post te!

O Patris caritas, O Nati lenitas!

Deeply were we stained Per nostra crimina;

But thou hast for us gained Coelorum gaudia.

O that we were there!

O that we were there!

Ubi sunt gaudia, if that they be not there?

There are angels singing — Nova cantica,

And there the bells are ringing In Regis curia:

O that we were there, O that we were there.

In dulci jubilo Let us our homage show;

Our heart’s joy reclineth in praesepio

And like a bright star shineth, Matris in gremio.

Alpha es et O, Alpha es et O.