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