Draw nigh, draw nigh, O Morning Star, And close the path of misery.

And bring us comfort from afar;
And banish far from us the gloom
Of sinful night and endless doom.
Rejoice! rejoice! Immanuel
Shall come to thee, O Israel!

3.

Draw nigh, draw nigh, O David's Key,
The heavenly gate unfolds to Thee;
Make safe the way that leads on high,

Rejoice! rejoice! Immanuel
Shall come to thee, O Israel!

4.

Draw nigh, draw nigh, O Lord of Might,
Who once, from Sinai's flaming height,
Didst give the trembling tribes Thy
In cloud, and majesty, and awe. [Law,
Rejoice! rejoice! Immanuel
Shall come to thee, O Israel!

63.

Once, in Galilee, a lowly Maiden.

"No word from God shall be void of power." "Blessed is she that believed." 8.4.8.4.8.8.8.4.

M. WOOLSEY STRYKER, 1883.

4

Annunciation.

JOSEPH BARNBY, 1875.

Spake th' archangel,-"Fear not Mary, Said the Virgin,-"God hath spoken

While shepherds watched their flocks.

"Unto all them that obey Him, the Author of eternal salvation."

1. While shepherds watch'd their flocks by night, All seated on the ground, The An-gel of the

Lord came down And glo-ry shone a-round. "Fear not," said he; (for mighty dread Had

65.

C. M. D.

Calm on the listening ear of night.

"I am the root and offspring of David, the bright, the Morning Star."

EDMUND H. SEARS, 1834. abr.

Carol.

RICHARD STORRS WILLIS, 1860.

And greet, from all their holy More bright on Bethlehem's joyous

heights,

The Dayspring from on high: O'er the blue depths of Galilee

There comes a holier calm;

And Sharon waves, in solemn praise,
Her silent groves of palm.

plains

Breaks the first Christmas morn!
This day shall Christian tongues be mute,
And Christian hearts be cold?

Oh catch the anthem that, from Heaven,
O'er Judah's mountains rolled!