A n Online Christmas Songbook
God From On High

	1. 
	God from on high hath heard: 
	Let sighs and sorrows cease; 
	The skies unfold, and lo! 
	Descends the gift of Peace. 
	
	2. 
	Hark! on the midnight air 
	Celestial voices swell; 
	The hosts of heaven proclaim 
	'God comes on earth to dwell!' 
		
	3. 
	Haste with the shepherds; see 
	The mystery of grace: 
	A manger-bed, a child, 
	Is all the eye can trace. 
	
	4. 
	Is this indeeed the Christ? 
	Is this the Eternal Son, 
	Who, ere the worlds began, 
	Was with the Father One? 
	
	5. 
	Yes, faith can pierce the cloud 
	Which shrouds his glory now, 
	And hails him Lord, and God, 
	To whom all creatures bow. 
	
	6. 
	Faith sees the sapphire throne, 
	Where angels evermore 
	Adoring tremble still, 
	And trembling still adore. 
	
	7. 
	O child, thy silence speaks, 
	And bids us not refuse 
	To bear what flesh would shun, 
	To spurn what flesh would choose. 
	
	8. 
	Fill us with holy love; 
	Heal thou our earthly pride; 
	Be born within our hearts, 
	And ever there abide.

Text:     Charles Coffin (1676-1749)
Music:     KINGSLAND §2481
William Boyce (1710-1779)
arrangement from The Oxford Hymn Book, 1908
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