StoryTitle("caps", "On~the~Nativity of~Christ") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Rorate coeli desuper!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Hevins, distil your balmy schouris! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For now is risen the bricht day-ster, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Fro the rose Mary, flour of flouris: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The cleir Sone, quhom no cloud devouris, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Surmounting Phebus in the Est, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Is cumin of his hevinly touris:—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Et nobis Puer natus est. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Archangellis, angellis, and dompnationis, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Tronis, potestatis, and marteiris seir,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And all ye hevinly operationis, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Ster, planeit, firmament, and spheir, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Fire, erd, air, and water cleir, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To Him gife loving, most and lest, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "That come in to so meik maneir;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Et nobis Puer natus est. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Synnaris be glad, and penance do, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And thank your Maker hairtfully; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For he that ye micht nocht come to ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "To you is cumin full humbly ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Your soulis with his blood to buy ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And loose you of the fiendis arrest—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And only of his own mercy; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Pro nobis Puer natus est. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "All clergy do to him inclyne,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And bow unto that bairn benyng, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And do your observance divyne ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "To him that is of kingis King: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Encense his altar, read and sing ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In holy kirk, with mind degest,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Him honouring attour all thing ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Qui nobis Puer natus est. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Celestial foulis in the air, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Sing with your nottis upon hicht, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In firthis and in forrestis fair ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Be myrthful now at all your mycht; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "For passit is your dully nicht, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Aurora has the cloudis perst, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The Sone is risen with glaidsum licht, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Et nobis Puer natus est.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Now spring up flouris fra the rute, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Revert you upward naturaly, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In honour of the blissit frute ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "That raiss up fro the rose Mary; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Lay out your levis lustily,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Fro deid take life now at the lest ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "In wirschip of that Prince worthy ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Qui nobis Puer natus est. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Sing, hevin imperial, most of hicht! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Regions of air mak armony!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "All fish in flud and fowl of flicht ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Be mirthful and mak melody! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "All Gloria in excelsis cry! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Heaven, erd, se, man, bird and best,—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "He that is crownit abone the sky", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Pro nobis Puer natus est!", "") ?>
Poet("William Dunbar", "1465-1520?") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>