The Cyber Hymnal ‎#10707

10707. Joy! Joy! A Year Is Born

1 Joy! joy! a year is born;
A year to man is given,
For hope, and peace, and love,
For faith, and truth, and Heaven.
Though earth be dark with care,
With death and sorrow rife,
Yet toil, and pain, and prayer,
Lead to our higher life.

2 Behold, the fields are white!
No longer idly stand!
Go forth in love and might;
Man needs thy helping hand.
Thus may each day and year
To prayer and toil be given
Till man to God draw near,
And earth become like Heaven.

Text Information

• First Line: Joy! joy! a year is born
• Title: Joy! Joy! A Year Is Born
• Author: Anonymous
• Meter: 66.66 D
• Language: English
• Source: A Book of Hymns for Public and Private Devotion by Samuel Longfellow and Samuel Johnson (Boston: Ticknor, Reed & Fields, 4th ed., 1849)
• Copyright: Public Domain

Tune Information

• Name: INVITATION
• Composer: Frederick Charles Maker (1881)
• Meter: 66.66 D
• Key: E♭ Major
• Copyright: Public Domain