"He here did live, and here did preach"

Ralph Vaughan Williams, "The Truth From Above," Choir of St. John's College, Cambridge:

This is the truth sent from above, The truth of God, the God of love; Therefore don’t turn me from your door,    But hearken all both rich and poor.	And at that season of the year Our blest Redeemer did appear; He here did live, and here did preach, And may thousands he did teach.
The first thing which I do relate Is that God did man create; The next thing which to you I’ll tell Woman was made with man to dwell.	Thus he in love to us behaved, To show us how we must be saved; And if you want to know the way, Be pleased to hear what he did say.
And we were heirs to endless woes, Till God the Lord did interpose; And so a promise soon did run That he would redeem us by his Son.