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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Epiphany<br />
Forsaking <strong>All</strong> For <strong>The</strong> True Light<br />
Laurentius Laurenti, 1700<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Christmas</strong> Poems <strong>of</strong> Catherine Winkworth<br />
Source: Lyra Germanica: Second Series, <strong>The</strong> Christian Life, 1858<br />
Is<br />
thy heart athirst to know<br />
That the King <strong>of</strong> heaven <strong>and</strong> earth<br />
Deigns to dwell with man below,<br />
Yea hath stoop'd to mortal birth?<br />
Search the Word with ceaseless care<br />
Till thou find this treasure there.<br />
With the sages from afar<br />
Journey on o'er sea <strong>and</strong> l<strong>and</strong>,<br />
Till thou see the Morning Star<br />
O'er thy heart unchanging st<strong>and</strong>,<br />
<strong>The</strong>n shalt thou behold His face<br />
Full <strong>of</strong> mercy, truth <strong>and</strong> grace.<br />
For if Christ be born within,<br />
Soon that likeness shall appear<br />
Which the heart had lost through sin,<br />
God's own image fair <strong>and</strong> clear,<br />
And the soul serene <strong>and</strong> bright<br />
Mirrors back His heavenly light.<br />
Jesus, let me seek for nought,<br />
But that Thou shouldst dwell in me;<br />
Let this only fill my thought,<br />
How I may grow liker <strong>The</strong>e,<br />
Through this early care <strong>and</strong> strife,<br />
Through the calm eternal life.<br />
With the wise who know <strong>The</strong>e right,<br />
Though the world accounts them fools,<br />
I will praise <strong>The</strong>e day <strong>and</strong> night,<br />
I will order by Thy rules<br />
<strong>All</strong> my life, that it may be<br />
Fill'd with praise <strong>and</strong> love <strong>of</strong> <strong>The</strong>e.<br />
Note: Also found in Catherine Winkworth, <strong>The</strong> Chorale Book For Engl<strong>and</strong>, 1863. See: Is Thy <strong>Heart</strong><br />
Athirst To Know.<br />
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