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127 | The Hymnal#128 | 129 |
Text: | A thousand years have come and gone |
Author: | Rev. Thomas Toke Lynch |
Tune: | NOEL |
Arranger: | Arthur S. Sullivan |
1 A thousand years have come and gone,
And near a thousand more,
Since happier light from heaven shone
Than ever shone before;
And in the hearts of old and young
A joy most joyful stirred,
That sent such news from tongue to tongue
As ears had never heard.
2 Then angels on their starry way
Felt bliss unfelt before,
For news that men should be as they,
To darkened earth they bore;
So toiling men and spirits bright
A first communion had,
And in meek mercy's rising light
Were each exceeding glad.
3 And we are glad, and we will sing,
As in the days of yore;
Come all, and hearts made ready bring,
To welcome back once more
The day when first on wintry earth
A summer change began,
And, dawning in a lowly birth,
Uprose the Light of man.
4 For trouble such as men must bear
From childhood to fourscore,
He shared with us, that we might share
His joy for evermore;
And twice a thousand years of grief,
Of conflict, and of sin,
May tell how large the harvest sheaf
His patient love shall win.
Amen.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | A thousand years have come and gone |
Author: | Rev. Thomas Toke Lynch (1868) |
Meter: | C. M. D. |
Publication Date: | 1950 |
Topic: | Jesus Christ the Lord: His Birth; Children, Christ's Love for; Christ: Birth and Infancy of(3 more...) |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | NOEL |
Arranger: | Arthur S. Sullivan (1871) |
Meter: | C. M. D. |
Key: | F Major |
Copyright: | Tune used by permission of Novello and Company, Ltd. |