See amid the winter's snow

See amid the winter's snow,
Born for us on earth below,
See the tender lamb appears,
Promised from eternal years

Hail, thou ever-blessed morn!
Hail, redemption's happy dawn!
Sing through all jerusalem,
Christ is born in bethlehem.
Say, ye holy shepherds, say
What your joyful news today

Wherefore have ye left your sheep
On the lonely mountain steep?
Sacred infant, all divine,
What a tender love was thine,
Thus to come from highest bliss
Down to such a world as this