The true Light was coming into the world.
John 1:9
Words: Flora Kirkland, in Uplifted Voices, edited by Adam Geibel & R. Frank Lehman (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Geibel & Lehman, 1901), number 166.
Music: Adam Geibel (🔊 pdf nwc).
If you know where to get a good photo of Kirkland (head-and-shoulders, at least 200×300 pixels),
In yonder stable gleams a light,
Serenely calm, divinely fair;
The King hath come to earth tonight,
Behold Him resting lowly there.
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The light of Heaven seems to fold Him
As in a wondrous dress,
In Bethle’m’s manger we behold Him,
The Lord our righteousness;
The light of Heaven seems to fold Him
As in a wondrous dress,
In Bethle’m’s manger we behold Him,
The Lord our righteousness.
Behold the Lamb of God from Heav’n,
Bow low before His infant feet;
The pow’r that rescues you and me,
Is vested in that Christ-child sweet.
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Behold the Man of Galilee,
He rested first in Bethle’m’s stall;
Upon this blessèd, blessèd night,
Come worship Him, your All in All.
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