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ANGEL'S SONG
Meter: 8.7.8.7 Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: Horace Lorenzo Hastings Tune Sources: Songs of Pilgrimage (Boston: Scriptural Tract Repository, 1888) Tune Key: C Major Incipit: 11351 23216 12 Used With Text: As The World Around Was Sleeping
ANGEL'S SONG
As The World Around Was Sleeping
Author: Horace L. Hastings Hymnal: The Cyber Hymnal #9559 Meter: 8.7.8.7 Lyrics: 1 As the world around was sleeping,
In the calm and silent night;
While the shepherds watch were keeping
Came an angel robed in light.
2 Gazing on his matchless splendor,
They were troubled and dismayed;
But in accents kind and tender,
Soon He said, Be not afraid.
3 Lo! to you I bring good tidings,
Words of peace to all your race;
For in Bethlehem abiding
Now is born the Prince of Grace.
4 Would you know the royal Stranger?
By this sign you may be sure:
Ye shall find Him in a manger,
Wrapped in swaddling garments poor.
5 Hark! Heaven’s hosts take up the story,
Praising God o’er Bethlehem’s plain;
Glory in the highest, glory;
Peace on earth, good will to men.
6 We would join the rapturous story,
Swell the angels’ lofty strain,
Glory in the highest, glory;
Worthy is the Lamb once slain. Languages: English Tune Title: ANGEL'S SONG
As The World Around Was Sleeping
As the world around was sleeping
Hymnal: Songs of Pilgrimage #861 (1888)
As the world around was sleeping
Good tidings
Hymnal: Hymns of the Millennial Dawn #ad15 (1937) First Line: As the world around was sleeping Languages: English
Good tidings
H. L. Hastings
1831 - 1899 Person Name: Horace L. Hastings Author (attributed to) of "As The World Around Was Sleeping" in The Cyber Hymnal Hastings, Horace Lorenzo, was born at Blandford, Mass., Nov. 26, 1831; commenced writing hymns, and preaching, in his 17th year, and laboured as an evangelist in various parts of the U. S. In 1866 he established The Christian, a monthly paper, in which many of his hymns have appeared, and in 1865 the Scriptural Tract Repository in Boston. He published Social Hymns, Original and Selected, Boston, 1865; Songs of Pilgrimage, a Hymnal for the Churches of Christ, Part i., 1880; and in August, 1886, the same completed, to tho extent of 1533 hymns, 450 of which are original and signed "H." The best known of these is "Shall we meet beyond the river," written in N. Y. city, 1858, and lately published as a leaflet in 14 stanzas of 8 lines. The text in Gospel Hymns and elsewhere consists of the 1st half of stanzas i., iv., xi. and ix. The Hastings Birthday Book, extracts from his prose writings, appeared 1886. [Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.]
-- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology
H. L. Hastings
