A new song God has given, a new thing God has done, when from the courts of heaven he sent to us his Son. Rejoice in song and story to tell of Jesus' birth, who laid aside his glory and came, a child, to earth. A new-born baby sleeping, a mother's tender care, while ox and ass are keeping their night-long vigil there; to greet the infant stranger the shepherds make their way, to find, within a manger, the child of Christmas Day. A new-found star is shining upon the eastern skies, that kings may come, divining the way of all the wise. O child of our salvation, receive the gifts we bring, the songs of adoration that love alone can sing. A new world now is waking, the old must pass away; a new-made morning breaking on God's eternal day. A new song God has given to tell his praise abroad, who came, a child, from heaven, a Saviour, Christ the Lord.