Come Let Us Sing Of Those Sweet Babes

For the Feast of the Holy Innocents
See: The Hymns Of The Holy Innocents

Words: Anonymous

Music: Anonymous

Source: A. B. Goodrich, ed., A New Service And Tune Book For Sunday Schools (New York: Gen. Prot. Episc. S. S. Union and Church Book Society, 1863, New Edition, Enlarged, 1866), #78, p. 80.

1. Come, let us sing of those sweet babes
    Whom Herod murder'd long ago;
When all through Ramah's coast was heard
    A sound of bitter woe.

2. They tore them from the cradle-bed;
    They tore them from their mother's breast;
But, since they died for Jesus' sake,
    We call those children blest.

3. They might have brown up wicked men,
    That heeded not God's holy Word;
They might have joined their cruel cry,
    Who crucified the Lord.

4. But, early called, they gave their lives
    for Him Who, fleeing through the wild,
Yet had a part in all their pangs,
    And loved each martyr-child.

5. Safe from beneath the murderer's knife,
    They passed to His eternal rest;
And since they died for Jesus' sake,
    We call those children blest.

Sheet Music from A. B. Goodrich, ed., A New Service And Tune Book For Sunday Schools (New York: Gen. Prot. Episc. S. S. Union and Church Book Society, 1863, New Edition, Enlarged, 1866), #78, p. 80.

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