All My Heart This Night Rejoices - The Hymns and Carols of Christmas
All My Heart This Night Rejoices - The Hymns and Carols of Christmas
All My Heart This Night Rejoices - The Hymns and Carols of Christmas
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<strong>All</strong> <strong>My</strong> <strong>Heart</strong> <strong>This</strong> <strong>Night</strong> <strong>Rejoices</strong><br />
<strong>Christmas</strong><br />
A Song <strong>of</strong> Joy at Dawn<br />
Paul Gerhardt, 1651<br />
Source: Lyra Germanica: Second Series, <strong>The</strong> Christian Life, 1858<br />
<strong>All</strong><br />
my heart this night rejoices,<br />
As I hear,<br />
Far <strong>and</strong> near,<br />
Sweetest angel voices;<br />
"Christ is born," their choirs are singing,<br />
Till the air<br />
Everywhere<br />
Now with joy is ringing.<br />
For it dawns, — the promised morrow<br />
Of His birth<br />
Who the earth<br />
Rescues from her sorrow.<br />
god to wear our form descendeth,<br />
Of His grace<br />
To our race<br />
Here His Son He lendeth:<br />
Yea, so truly for us careth,<br />
That His Son<br />
<strong>All</strong> we've done<br />
As our <strong>of</strong>fering beareth;<br />
As our Lamb who, dying for us,<br />
Bears our load,<br />
And to God<br />
Doth in peace restore us.<br />
Hark! a voice from yonder manger,<br />
S<strong>of</strong>t <strong>and</strong> sweet,<br />
Doth entreat,<br />
"Flea from woe <strong>and</strong> danger;<br />
Brethren come, from all doth grieve you<br />
You are freed,<br />
<strong>All</strong> you need<br />
I will surely give you."<br />
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