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Text:Hark! What Sounds Are Sweetly Stealing?
Author:Anonymous
Tune:HARVAT
Composer:John Sebastian Bach Hodges, 1830-1915
Media:MIDI file

2173. Hark! What Sounds Are Sweetly Stealing?

1. Hark! what sounds are sweetly stealing
Soft through Bethlehem’s midnight air?
Louder yet, and louder pealing,
Angel accents sure are there.

Refrain
Glory, glory, peace and mercy,
Peace on earth, good will to men.

2. See! a light from Heaven is streaming,
Night and darkness quit the plain;
See! an angel brightly beaming,
Followed by a radiant train. [Refrain]

3. Fear not, shepherds! glad my story,
Tidings of the greatest joy:
Christ is born, the Lord of Glory!
I proclaim a Savior nigh. [Refrain]

4. Thus the angel, then ascending,
Seeks again the realms of light;
Now the chorus faintly ending,
All is silence, all is night. [Refrain]

Text Information
First Line: Hark! what sounds are sweetly stealing
Title: Hark! What Sounds Are Sweetly Stealing?
Author: Anonymous (before 1895)
Refrain First Line: Glory, glory, peace and mercy
Meter: 87.87.87
Language: English
Source: Carols for Use in Church, by Richard R. Chope (London: William Clowes & Sons, Limited, 1894), number 76
Copyright: Public Domain
Tune Information
Name: HARVAT
Composer: John Sebastian Bach Hodges, 1830-1915
Meter: 87.87.87
Incipit: 55671 72151 76576
Key: C Major
Copyright: Public Domain



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