This is a pretty song for Christmas that I will never use because it is inappropriate in the Southern Hemisphere.
The text is by Edward Caswell and it is set to WINTER’S SNOW by Kevin Keil. He removed the refrain and several stanzas for this version, which can be purchased at OCP.
1 See, amid the winter’s snow,
born for us on earth below,
see the tender Lamb appears,
promised from eternal years.
There within a manger lies
He who built the starry skies;
He, who throned in height sublime,
sits amid the cherubim!
2 Say, ye holy shepherds, say,
what your joyful news today;
wherefore have ye left your sheep
on the lonely mountain steep?
“As we watched at dead of night,
lo, we saw a wondrous light;
angels, singing ‘Peace on earth’
told us of the Savior’s birth.”