Anonymous

“ The "Adeste Fideles" (5th S. xi 265, 298, 331, 372, 418) -- The hymn was very commonly sung in the Lancashire churches certainly in 1820 (as my hymn book shows) to the following words:
Ye faithful, triumphant
Enter into Bethlehem,
Enter, oh enter with joy of heart;
Tidings, glad tidings,
Sent from heaven by angels,--
Chorus:
O, come let us adore, O, come let us adore,
O, come let us adore the Lord.
A Virgin, conceived
And bore the world a Saviour,
God of god, and light of light.
Hail! holy infant,
Very God of very God. Chorus.
Great joy to all people,
To-day a Son is given ”