The 'O' Antiphons - O Emmanuel

(The "O" Antiphons, so called because each one addresses the God who comes in Christ with a different biblical title, beginning with the invocation "O," are prayed in the 7 days leading up to Christmas.)

O Emmanuel (God-with-us)

Not as a king you come here now;
No gold your throne adorns:
No royal crown is on your brow,
Except a crown of thorns.

You come a holy law to teach,
A perfect rule to set,
Give blind their sight and dumb their speech,
And be rejected yet.

Oh, make us one with you below,
In heart and will and love;
And when our time draws nigh to go,
Still keep us one above.

We wait in faith, we wait in prayer,
Until the happy morn
When you shall come our Flesh to share,
And for our sake be born.