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Text: | Hark! What Sounds are Sweetly Stealing? |
Tune: | ST. OSWALD |
Composer: | John Bacchus Dykes, Mus. Doc., 1823-1876 |
1 Hark! what sounds are sweetly stealing,
Soft through Bethlehem’s midnight air?
Louder yet, and louder pealing,
Angel accents sure are there.
2 See! a light from heaven is streaming,
Night and darkness quit the plain;
See! an angel brightly beaming,
Followed by a radiant train.
3 "Fear not, shepherds! glad my story,
Tidings of the greatest joy:
Christ is born, the Lord of Glory!
I proclaim a Saviour nigh."
4 Thus the angel, then ascending,
Seeks again the realms of light;
Now the chorus faintly ending,
All is silence, all is night.
Amen.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | Hark! what sounds are sweetly stealing |
Title: | Hark! What Sounds are Sweetly Stealing? |
Meter: | 8 7, 8 7. |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1901 |
Topic: | Christmas |
Notes: | First Tune |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | ST. OSWALD |
Composer: | John Bacchus Dykes, Mus. Doc., 1823-1876 (1857) |
Meter: | 8 7, 8 7. |