8375 | The Cyber Hymnal#8376 | 8377 |
Text: | Ye People, Cease From Tears |
Author: | Charles Coffin |
Translator: | Richard Campbell |
Tune: | ST. GEORGE |
Composer: | Henry John Gauntlett |
Media: | MIDI file |
1 Ye people, cease from tears,
Your prayers are heard above:
And from His throne in Heav’n appears
The God of peace and love.
2 O’er Bethl’em’s silent plains,
Hark, heav’nly voices sing,
Announcing in triumphant strains
The birthday of our king.
3 The faithful shepherds hear,
And haste the Babe to greet:
Let us like them with joy draw near,
And worship at His feet.
4 But say—oh, strange surprise—
What spectacle is seen:
An Infant in the manger laid,
His parents poor and mean?
5 Say—do we here behold
The Son of God most high,
Who doth within His hand infold
The earth and sea and sky?
6 Faith penetrates the veil,
And through the cloud drawn o’er,
Sees Him whom angels trembling hail,
The God whom they adore.
7 O Babe, Thy birth despised
And lowly manger tell,
To flee from all below that’s prized,
And with the meek to dwell.
8 From sinful shame and pride
Guard us, Thou Child divine:
Then wilt Thou in our hearts abide,
Thy cradle and Thy shrine.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | Ye people, cease from tears |
Title: | Ye People, Cease From Tears |
Latin Title: | Jam desinant suspiria |
Author: | Charles Coffin |
Translator: | Richard Campbell |
Meter: | SM |
Language: | English |
Source: | Paris Breviary, 1736 |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
Notes: | Written for Matins of Christmas Day. Alternate tune: ST. MICHAEL by Louis Bourgeois |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | ST. GEORGE |
Composer: | Henry John Gauntlett (1848) |
Meter: | SM |
Key: | C Major |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
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