Hark! Hark! The Sweet, Sweet Chiming

Words: Marie Mason

Music: Not Stated

Source: John Clark Hollister, ed., Chants, Carols, and Tunes: A Supplement To The Sunday-School Service and Tune Book (New York: E. P. Dutton and Company, 1863, 1865), Supplement p. 18.

1. Hark! hark! the sweet, sweet chiming
    Of merry Christmas bells!
Their low, melodious hymning
    A wondrous story tells!
Beneath the stars that glisten
    O'er distant Syrian plains,
The watching shepherds listen
    To clear, angelic strains.

2. "To God the highest glory!"
    While heavenly arches ring,
Responsive to the story
    That Gabriel doth sing:
"The peace on earth whose blessing
    Shall bring good will to men;"
And in his name progressing,
    Shall fill the world again!

3. And where the dawn is streaking
    The eastern sky, afar,
They see the glory breaking
    From off a new-born Star!
It shines above the manger
    Wherein a babe is born,
And for that infant stranger
    Arch-angels hail the morn!

4. No kingly crown awaits him,
    No robe of Tyrian dye,
But heavenly choirs his praises
    Are sounding through the sky!
For Bethlehem's lowly manger
    The King of kings contains!
And Glory! Glory! Glory!
    The Lord of all he reigns!

Sheet Music from John Clark Hollister, ed., Chants, Carols, and Tunes: A Supplement To The Sunday-School Service and Tune Book (New York: E. P. Dutton and Company, 1863, 1865), Supplement p. 18.

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