FAVORITE CHRISTMAS QUOTES 2012, 

# 13:

Jesus our Brother,

kind and good,

was humbly born

in a stable rude,

and the friendly beasts

around Him stood,

Jesus our Brother,

kind and good.

Robert Davis (1881-1950) apparently wrote the words that we normally associate with this tune in the 1920s. The tune, on the other hand, dates back to the 12th century, when it served as the setting for "Orientis Partibus," a song about the donkey that carried the Virgin Mary to Bethlehem just before the Nativity.