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1. THE scene around me disappears,
And, borne to ancient regions,
While time recals the flight of years,
I see angelic legions
Descending in an orb of light,
Amidst the dark and silent night,
I hear celestial voices.

2. Tidings, glad tidings from above,
To every age and nation;
Tidings, glad tidings,-God is love;
To man He sends salvation;
His Son beloved, His only Son,
The work of mercy hath begun;
Give to His name the glory!

3. Through David's city I am led; Here all around are sleeping; A light directs to yon poor shed,

Where lonely watch is keeping: I enter;-ah! what glories shine! Is this Immanuel's earthly shrine? Messiah's infant temple?

4. It is; it is;—and I adore

This Stranger meek and lowly,
As saints and seraphs bow before
The throne of God thrice holy;
Faith through the vail of flesh can see
The face of Thy divinity,

My Lord, my God, my Saviour!

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MILTON. P. M.

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2. On Him the Spirit, largely poured,
Exerts its sacred fire;

Wisdom and might, and zeal and love,
His holy breast inspire.

3. He comes, the prisoner to release,
In Satan's bondage held;

The gates of brass before Him burst,
The iron fetters yield.

4. He comes, from thickest films of vice To clear the mental ray,

And on the eyeballs of the blind
To pour celestial day.

5. He comes, the broken heart to bind,

The bleeding soul to cure,
And with the treasures of His grace
To enrich the humble poor.

6. Our glad hosannas, Prince of Peace,
The welcome shall proclaim,
And heaven's eternal arches ring
With Thy beloved name.

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DODDRIDGE.

1. CALM on the listening ear of night
Come heaven's melodious strains,
Where wild Judea stretches far
Her silver-mantled plains.

2. Celestial choirs, from courts above,
Shed sacred glories there,
And angels, with their sparkling lyres,
Make music on the air.

3. The answering hills of Palestine
Send back the glad reply;

And greet, from all their holy heights,
The day-spring from on high.

4. O'er the blue depths of Galileo

There comes a holier calm,
And Sharon waves, in solemn praise,
Her silent groves of palm.

5. "Glory to God!" the sounding skies
Loud with their anthems ring-
"Peace to the carth, good-will to men,
From heaven's eternal King!"

6. Light on thy hills, Jerusalem!
The Saviour now is born!

And bright on Bethlehem's joyous plains
Breaks the first Christmas morn.

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E. II. SEARS.

1. MESSIAH! at Thy glad approach
The howling winds are still;
Thy praises fill the lonely waste,
And breathe from every hill.

2. The incense of the spring ascends Upon the morning gale;

Red o'er the hill the roses bloom,
The lilies in the vale.

3. Renew'd, the earth a robe of light,
A robe of beauty wears;
And in new heav'ns a brighter Sun
Leads on the promis'd years.

4. Let Israel to the Prince of Peace
The loud hosanna sing;
With hallelujahs, and with hymns,
O Zion, hail thy King.

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