Words: "Puer Nobis Nascitur," Authorship Unknown, Trier MS, 15th Century
Translations: See Below
Music: "Puer Nobis Nascitur," Piae Cantiones, 1582
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1. puer nobis nascitur
Rector angelorum;
In hoc mundo pascitur
Dominus dominorum.
2. In præsepe ponitur
Sub fœno asinorum.
Cognoverunt dominum
Christum regem cœlorum.
3. Hinc Herodes timuit -
Magno cum dolore,
Et pueros occidit,
Infantes cum livore.
4. Qui natus est ex Marie -
Die hodierna
Ducat nos cum gratia
Ad gaudia superna.
5. O et A et A et O
Cum cantibus in choro,
Cum canticis et organo,
Benedicamus domino.
Sheet Music "Carol for Children" from J. H. Hopkins, ed., Great Hymns of the Church Compiled by the Late Right Reverend John Freeman Young (New York: James Pott & Company, 1887), #56, p. 88.
"Original Melody.
Harmonized by H. R. Schrœder"
Translations Include:
Unto Us A Boy Is Born (Translated by the Percy Dearmer, The Oxford Book of Carols, #92, copyright 1928)
Unto Us A Boy Is Born (Translated by Editors, The New Oxford Book of Carols, copyright 1992)
Unto Us Is Born A Son (Translator: G. R. Woodward, adapted by Elizabeth Poston, The Penguin Book of Christmas Carols, copyright 1965)
Unto Us A Child Is Born (Translated by John Fulton)
Unto Us Is Born A Son (Translated by George Ratcliffe Woodward, 1859-1934)
Unto Us Is Born A Son - Version 2
