ADESTE FIDELES

 Words: Thomas Francis Wade, ca. 1740
        English adaptation: In [Benjamin Carr] Musical Journal
        for the Piano Forte vol. 2, no. 29 (Baltimore, December 1800)
 Tune: Thomas Francis Wade, ca. 1740 (Sacred Harp p. 223)

 Adeste fideles, laeti triumphantes;
  Venite, venite in Bethlehem;
 Natum videte Regem angelorum:
  Venite adoremus Dominum!

 Deum de Deo, lumen de lumine,
  Gestant puellae viscera;
 Deum verum, genitum, non factum:
  Venite adoremus Dominum!

 Cantet nunc io chorus angelorum,
  Cantet nunc aula caelestium:
 Gloria, gloria in excelsis Deo!
  Venite adoremus Dominum!

 Ergo qui natus die hodierna,
  Jesu tibi sit gloria;
 Patris aeterni Verbum caro factum!
  Venite adoremus Dominum!


 ENGLISH ADAPTATION (vss. 1, 4 and 3)
    
 Hither, ye faithful, haste with songs of triumph,
  To Bethlehem haste, the Lord of life to meet; 
 To you this day is born a Prince and Savior;
  O come and let us worship at his feet.

 O Jesus, for such wondrous condescension,
  Our praises and reverence are an offering meet;
 Now as the word made flesh and dwells among us;
  O come, and let us worship at his feet. 

 Shout his almighty name, ye choirs of angels,
  And let the celestial courts his praise repeat;
 Unto our God be glory in the highest,
  O come and let us worship at his feet.