1 What means this glorious radiance
Across Judea’s plain?
These white winged angels singing
In such exultant strain?
Refrain:
The King of glory cometh,
Earth’s broken hearts to bind,
And God’s salvation morning
Hath dawned for all mankind.
2 What means this wondrous story
The holy angels tell,
Of One who reigned in Heaven,
And now on earth would dwell? [Refrain]
3 Why bend these eastern sages
To one of lowly birth?
What means this heav’nly message
Of love and peace on earth? [Refrain]
4 Ye wand’rers in earth’s darkness,
On ocean deep and land,
Hail, hail the joyful tidings,
"The morning is at hand." [Refrain]
Source: The Cyber Hymnal #13216