A Christmas hymn from the seventeenth century, recalling the song the angels sang to the shepherds of Bethlehem.
George Wither was a poet and satirist who fought alongside Charles I against the Scottish Covenanters, and against him in the Civil War. He wrote several hymns, and made a translation of the Psalms into lyric verse. This Christmas hymn was published in Hymns and Songs of the Church (1623).