Robert Shaw - How Unto Bethlehem? lyrics

How unto Bethlehem this pilgrimage of kings? What wonder your arrival brings How strange the royal diadem in Bethlehem Seek we a king and honor bear him from afar His birth proclaimed by a star 'Tis surely near, oh tell us pray, is this the way? Ah, but the child we seek so richly to adorn of lowly maid is lowly born His palace but a stable bare, no crown lies there Seek we a stable then, for though in manger laid And lowly born of lowly maid This day a kingdom is begun, and His the one