Sun of Righteousness

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All this night bright angels sing

Author: William Austin
Tune: [All this night bright angels sing] (Sullivan)
Published in 33 hymnals

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1 All this night bright angels sing,
Never was such carolling,
Hark! a voice which loudly cries,
"Mortals, mortals, wake and rise.
Lo! to gladness
Turns your sadness:
From the earth is ris'n a Sun,
Shines all night tho' day be done."

2 Wake, O earth, wake every thing,
Wake and hear the joy I bring:
Wake and joy; for all this night,
Heaven and every twinkling light,
All amazing,
Still stand gazing,
Angels, powers and all that be,
Wake, and joy this Sun to see.

3 Hail! O Sun, O blessed Light,
Sent into this world by night;
Let Thy Rays and heav'nly Pow'rs,
Shine in these dark souls of ours.
For most duly,
Thou art truly
God and Man, we do confess:
Hail, O Sun of Righteousness!

Source: Carols Old and Carols New: for use at Christmas and other seasons of the Christian year #2

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Author: William Austin

Austin, William. A lawyer of Lincoln's Inn in the time of Charles I. His widow, Ann Austin, published in 1635, his Devotionis Avgvstinianae Flamma. This contains 3 carols for Christmas Day, 3 poems for Good Friday, 1 for tbe Annunciation, and a poem by himself in anticipation of his own death. They are all of merit, and 4 may be found reprinted in Days & Seasons, 3rd ed., 1857, London, Mozley. In the Harleian manuscript Kalph Crane's A Handful of Celestial Flowers contains other hymns, one of which, with Austin's initials, has been printed by Farr in his Select Poetry of James I. It begins, "What a gracious God have we." The popular carol-- "All this night bright Angels sing, Never was such carolling." No. xli. in Bramley and Stainer'… Go to person page >

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