Riu, riu, chiu
La guarda ribera
Dios guarde el lobo
De nuestra cordera.
El lobo rabioso la quiso
morder,
Mas Dios poderoso
la supo defender;
Quisole hazer que no pudiesse pecar,
Ni aun
original esta Virgen no tuviera.
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Este qu’es nascido es el gran monarca,
Cristo
patriarca de carne vestido;
Hanos redimido con se hazer
chiquito,
Aunqu’era infinito, finito se hizera.
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Muchas profecias lo han profetizado,
Y aun en
nuestros dias lo hemos alcancado.
A Dios humanado vemos en el
suelo
Y al hombre nel cielo porqu’er le quisiera.
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Yo vi mil Garzones que andavan cantando,
Por aqui
bolando, haciendo mil sones,
Diziendo a gascones Gloria sea en el
cielo,
Y paz en el suelo qu’es Jesus nascieta.
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Este viene a dar a los muertos vida
Y viene a
reparar de todos la caida;
Es la luz del dia aqueste
mocuelo;
Este es el cordero que San Juan dixera.
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Pues que ya tenemos lo que desseamos,
Todos juntos
vamos presentes llevemos;
Todos le daremos nuestra
voluntad,
Pues a se igualar con el hombre viniera.
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Riu, riu, chiu (nightingale's sounds)
The river bank protects it,
As God kept the wolf
from our lamb.
The rabid wolf tried to bite
her,
But God Almighty knew how to
defend her,
He wished to create her
impervious
to sin,
Nor was this maid to embody
original sin.
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The newborn child is the mightiest monarch,
Christ
patriarchal invested with flesh.
He made himself
small and so
redeemed us:
He who was infinite became finite.
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Many
prophecies told of his coming,
And now in our
days have we seen them fulfilled.
God became man, on earth we
behold him,
And see man in heaven because he so willed.
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A thousand singing herons
I saw passing,
Flying overhead, sounding
a thousand voices,
Exhulting, "Glory be in the heavens, and peace on
Earth,
for Jesus has been born."
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He comes to give life to the dead,
He comes to redeem the fall of man;
This child is the light of day,
He is the very lamb Saint John prophecied.
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Now we have gotten what we were all desiring,
Go we together to bear him gifts:
Let each give his will to the God
who was willing
To come down to
Earth man’s equal to be.
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