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OUT OF YOUR SLEEP ARISE AND WAKE by ANONYMOUS

First Line: OUT OF YOUR SLEEP ARISE AND WAKE
Last Line: THAT WE MAY THERE SING NOWELL. / NOWELL!
Subject(s): CHRISTMAS;REDEMPTION; "NATIVITY, THE;"
@3Nowell, nowell, nowell, nowell, nowell, nowell.@1

OUT of your sleep arise and wake,
For God mankind now hath ytake,
All of a maid without any make;
Of all women she beareth the bell.
@3Nowell.@1

And through a maiden fair and wise
Now man is made of full great price;
Now angels kneelen to man's service;
And at this time all this befell.
@3Nowell.@1

Now man is brighter than the sun;
Now man in heaven on high shall wone;
Blessed be God, this game is begun,
And His mother empress of hell.
@3Nowell.@1

That ever was thrall, now is he free;
That ever was small, now great is she;
Now shall God deem both thee and me
Unto His bliss, if we do well.
@3Nowell.@1

Now man may to heaven wend;
Now heaven and earth to him they bend;
He that was foe now is our friend.
This is no nay that I you tell.
@3Nowell.@1

Now blessed Brother, grant us grace,
At Doomësday to see Thy face,
And in Thy court to have a place,
That we may there sing @3nowell.
Nowell.@1



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