Nowell! Nowell!

Nowell! No­well! Good news I tell

And eke a won­der sto­ry;

A vir­gin mild hath born a child

Jesus the King of glo­ry.

Ave Ma­rie! O well is thee

Thou daugh­ter born of An­na.

Before thy Son

that ho­ly One

Archangels sang Osan­na.

Then praise be sung and bells be rung

To greet this kind­ly Strang­er;

Th’Ancient of Days

man­kind to raise

Abhorreth not the man­ger.