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 />
Poems For <strong>The</strong> New Year & <strong>The</strong> Circumcision<br />
Circumcision<br />
A Hymn for New Year's Day<br />
<strong>The</strong> Circumcision <strong>of</strong> Christ<br />
Daniel Wülffer, 1648<br />
Source: Lyra Germanica: First Series, Songs for the Household, 1855<br />
So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom. Psalm xc, 12<br />
Eternity!<br />
Eternity!<br />
How long art thou, Eternity!<br />
And yet to thee Time hastes away,<br />
Like as the warhorse to the fray,<br />
Or swift as couriers homeward go,<br />
Or ship to port, or shaft from bow.<br />
Ponder, O man, Eternity!<br />
Eternity! Eternity!<br />
How long art thou Eternity!<br />
For even as on a perfect sphere<br />
End nor beginning can appear,<br />
Even so, Eternity, in thee<br />
Entrance nor exit can there be.<br />
Ponder, O Man, Eternity!<br />
Eternity! Eternity!<br />
How long art thou Eternity!<br />
A circle infinite art thou,<br />
Thy center an Eternal Now,<br />
Never, we name thy outer bound,<br />
For never end therein is found.<br />
Ponder, O Man, Eternity!<br />
Eternity! Eternity!<br />
How long art thou Eternity!<br />
A little bird with fretting beak<br />
Might wear to nought the l<strong>of</strong>tiest peak,<br />
Though but each thous<strong>and</strong> years it came,<br />
Yet thou wert then, as now, the same.<br />
Ponder, O Man, Eternity!<br />
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