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<h2>WHILE SHEPHERDS WATCHED THEIR FLOCKS</h2>
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<p align="center"><h3>“There were shepherds living out in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks at night.” Luke 2:8-9</h3></p>
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<p><img src="./hymns/hymns_img/img_h_a_handel_gf.jpg" alt="George Frederick Handel (1685-1759)" align="right" hspace="15" vspace="5" width="131.333333333333" height="192"><em>Words:</em> <a href="./hymns/hymns_bio/bio_t_a_tate_n.html" target="_blank">Nahum Tate</a>, 1700; first appeared in Tate and Brady’s <em>Psalter</em>, 1702.</p>
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<p><em>Music:</em> “Christmas,” <a href="./hymns/hymns_bio/bio_h_a_handel_gf.html" target="_blank">George Frederick Handel</a>, 1728; arranged in <em>Harmonia Sacra</em>, 1812 </p><p><table><tr><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_mid/mid_x_xmas.mid" target = "_blank"><img border=0 src="./hymns/hymns_img/notes.gif"><br><b>Play MIDI</b></a></td><td> </td><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_html/score_info.html" target = "_blank"><b>Link to obtain<br>musical score info</b></a></td></tr></table></p>
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<li>“Martyrdom,” <a href="./hymns/hymns_bio/bio_w_i_wilson_h.html" target="_blank">Hugh Wilson</a>, 1800; arranged by <a href="./hymns/hymns_bio/bio_h_u_hudson_re.html" target="_blank">Ralph E. Hudson</a>, circa 1885 </p><p><table><tr><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_mid/mid_m_martyrdo.mid" target = "_blank"><img border=0 src="./hymns/hymns_img/notes.gif"><br><b>Play MIDI</b></a></td><td> </td><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_html/score_info.html" target = "_blank"><b>Link to obtain<br>musical score info</b></a></td></tr></table></p>
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<li>“Shackelford,” Frederick Henry Cheeswright, circa 1889 </p><p><table><tr><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_mid/mid_s_shackfor.mid" target = "_blank"><img border=0 src="./hymns/hymns_img/notes.gif"><br><b>Play MIDI</b></a></td><td> </td><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_html/score_info.html" target = "_blank"><b>Link to obtain<br>musical score info</b></a></td></tr></table></p>
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<li>“Winchester Old,” Este’s Psalter, 1592 </p><p><table><tr><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_mid/mid_w_wincheso.mid" target = "_blank"><img border=0 src="./hymns/hymns_img/notes.gif"><br><b>Play MIDI</b></a></td><td> </td><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_html/score_info.html" target = "_blank"><b>Link to obtain<br>musical score info</b></a></td></tr></table></p>
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<p>While shepherds watched their flocks by night,<br>
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All seated on the ground,<br>
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The angel of the Lord came down,<br>
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And glory shone around,<br>
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And glory shone around.</p>
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<p>“Fear not!” said he, for mighty dread<br>
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Had seized their troubled mind.<br>
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“Glad tidings of great joy I bring<br>
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To you and all mankind<br>
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To you and all mankind.</p>
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<p>“To you, in David’s town, this day<br>
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Is born of David’s line<br>
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A Savior, who is Christ the Lord,<br>
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And this shall be the sign,<br>
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And this shall be the sign.</p>
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<p>“The heavenly Babe you there shall find<br>
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To human view displayed,<br>
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All meanly wrapped in swathing bands,<br>
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And in a manger laid,<br>
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And in a manger laid.”</p>
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<p>Thus spake the seraph and forthwith<br>
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Appeared a shining throng<br>
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Of angels praising God on high,<br>
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Who thus addressed their song,<br>
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Who thus addressed their song:</p>
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<p>“All glory be to God on high,<br>
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And to the Earth be peace;<br>
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Good will henceforth from heaven to men<br>
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Begin and never cease,<br>
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Begin and never cease!”</p>
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