There was singing

The original version of this Christmas hymn dating from around 1997 was:

"  When you came down O Christ to this world you had made"

It addressed the newborn infant directly, asking questions of Him: "did you look on the manger...?", "did you hear ...", and in the second verse:

     "Did you know that the wise men from countries abroad

     had been summoned by starlight ...?"

However, I was persuaded to rephrase the lyric without these questions (which had continued throughout and had led to some confusion). In 2013 The text was published as above, with the scene set in a different way and the focus clearly on the wise men. We can enter into their experience, their discoveries, their responses, and so come to appreciate more of the cost, the sacrifice and generosity of Christ for whom no price was too great to pay, no love too vast to expend, to ransom us unworthy offenders, enabling us to share his eternal home, his heavenly kingdom.

No tune had come to mind when I was writing, but I found that the words exactly fitted John's tune now called TELYN AUR - whose name, Welsh for "Golden harp", reminds me of the joyful atmosphere anticipated in the final verse.