image above kindly donated
by Georg Hartong, The Netherlands
Words:
Hark!
the Herald
Angels Sing
HARK! THE HERALD-ANGELS
SING
GLORY TO THE NEW-BORN KING,
PEACE ON EARTH, AND
MERCY MILD,
GOD AND SINNERS RECONCILED,
JOYFUL, ALL YE NATIONS,
RISE,
JOIN THE TRIUMPH OF THE SKIES,
WITH THE ANGELIC HOST
PROCLAIM
CHRIST IS BORN IN BETHLEHEM,
HARK! THE HERALD-ANGELS
SING
GLORY TO THE NEW-BORN KING.
CHRIST, BY HIGHEST HEAVEN
ADORED,
CHRIST, THE EVERLASTING LORD,
LATE IN TIME BEHOLD
HIM COME,
OFFSPRING OF A VIRGIN'S WOMB,
VEILED IN FLESH THE
GODHEAD SEE,
HAIL, THE INCARNATE DEITY,
PLEASED AS MAN WITH MAN
TO DWELL,
JESUS, OUR IMMANUEL,
HARK! THE HERALD-ANGELS
SING
GLORY TO THE NEW-BORN KING.
HAIL, THE HEAVEN-BORN PRINCE
OF PEACE,
HAIL, THE SON OF RIGHTEOUSNESS,
LIGHT AND LIFE OF ALL HE
BRINGS,
RISEN WITH HEALING IN HIS WINGS,
MILD HE LAYS HIS
GLORY BY,
BORN THAT MAN NO MORE MAY DIE,
BORN TO RAISE THE SONS
OF EARTH,
BORN TO GIVE THEM SECOND BIRTH,
HARK! THE HERALD-ANGELS
SING
GLORY TO THE NEW-BORN KING.
