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Text: | Hark! the Herald Angels Sing |
Author: | Charles Wesley |
Tune: | MENDELSSOHN |
Adapter: | William H. Cummings |
Composer: | Felix Mendelssohn |
Composer (Descant): | David Willcocks |
1 Hark! the herald angels sing,
“Glory to the newborn King!
Peace on earth and mercy mild,
God and sinners reconciled.”
Joyful, all ye nations, rise,
join the triumph of the skies.
With th’angelic host proclaim,
“Christ is born in Bethlehem!”
Hark! the herald angels sing,
“Glory to the newborn King!”
2 Christ, by highest heav’n adored;
Christ, the everlasting Lord,
late in time behold him come,
offspring of the virgin’s womb.
Veiled in flesh the Godhead see,
hail th’incarnate deity;
pleased with us in flesh to dwell,
Jesus, our Immanuel!
Hark! the herald angels sing,
“Glory to the newborn King!”
3 Hail the heav’nborn Prince of Peace!
Hail the Sun of righteousness!
Light and life to all he brings,
ris’n with healing in his wings.
Mild he lays his glory by,
born that we no more may die,
born to raise us from the earth,
born to give us second birth.
Hark! the herald angels sing,
“Glory to the newborn King!”
Text Information | |
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First Line: | Hark! the herald angels sing |
Title: | Hark! the Herald Angels Sing |
Author: | Charles Wesley |
Meter: | 7.7.7.7 D |
Publication Date: | 2020 |
Scripture: | ; ; ; |
Topic: | Incarnation; Jesus Christ: Images and Names of |
Source: | Hymns and Sacred Poems, 1739, alt. |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | MENDELSSOHN |
Composer: | Felix Mendelssohn (1840) |
Adapter: | William H. Cummings (1855) |
Composer (Descant): | David Willcocks |
Meter: | 7.7.7.7 D |
Key: | G Major |
Source: | adapt. William H. Cummings (England), Congregational Hymn and Tune Book, 1857; desc. David Willcocks (England), Carols for Choirs |
Copyright: | desc. © 1961 Oxford University Press |