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OW by Jhining Forms attended,
By what golden Jlair,

He, thc Son of God, dejcended,
Teli me, Earth and Air !
Hark ! the Heaven itfelf is ringing,
All the blue wide arch
Rolls a jound of Angels Jinging
His triumphal March.
Not with iron Jleeped in jlaughter,
Nor with blood-red feet
Comes He ! but like rills of water
Where the dry Juns beat :

Love with happy eyes before Him
Melteth Jin like /now ;

All whom He hath made adore Him,
Fount of Peace below.
Wife Men of the Eajl unravel
Wondrous Signs afar ;

Forth to Judah*s land they travel,
Led by the new Star :

Thither, for their Soul divineth
Some great Birth foretold,

Each his feveral Gift conjigneth,
Incenje, Myrrh and Gold.
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On the quiet hilis, far jleeping
In a Jilver light,

Shepherds lonely watch were keeping
Mid their flocks by night,

When Jlrange Harmonies abovc them
Burjling, wavc on wave,

Told of Christ come down to love them,
Christ, Supreme to Jave.
Turn and look where feeble, tender,
Helplefs to behold,

Lies our King, bereft of Jplendour,

Touched with heat and cold:

In a Jlable, in a manger,

Heir to Jbrrows born,

Even He, a Babe, a Stranger,

Naked and forlorn.
Teli me what Divine AfFefiions
Throng that Infant Brain !

Say what dreamy recollefiions
Breathe, preluding pain !

Holy Child, Priejl, Prince, and Prophet,
That myjterious rejl
Shadows, though men know not of it,
Anguijh in Thy Breajl.
