| Edward Farr, ed. Select Poetry of the Reign of King James the First. 1847. | | | | On the Nativitie of My Saviour | | XXIV. Benjamin Jonson |
| | | I SING the birth was born to night, | |
| The Author both of life and light; | |
| The angels so did sound it, | |
| And like the ravish’d sheep’erds said, | |
| Who saw the light, and were afraid, | 5 |
| Yet search’d, and true they found it. | |
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| The Sonne of God, th’ Eternall King, | |
| That did us all salvation bring, | |
| And freed the soule from danger; | |
| Hee whom the whole world could not take, | 10 |
| The Word, which heaven and earth did make, | |
| Was now laid in a manger. | |
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| What comfort by him doe wee winne, | |
| Who made himself the price of sinne, | |
| To make us heires of glory? | 15 |
| To see this babe all innocence, | |
| A martyr borne in our defence; | |
| Can man forget this storie? | | | | |
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