Holy Night

For Christmas

Words: Not Stated

Music: Charles W. Wendte

Source: Charles W. Wendte, At Christmas Time (Boston: The Beacon Press, 1917), pp. 52-53.

1. Softly now, on angel pinions,
Draw'st thou nearer, Holy Night,
And I hear the joybells ringing,
See the windows all alight.
E'en the humblest home rejoices,
While, in accents clear and strong.
To the Christ-child children's voices
Lift their thankful hearts in song;
To the Christ-child children's voices
Lift their thankful hearts in song.

2. With a fulness of sweet music,
Heav'nly glow on plain and height,
As the world did once behold thee,
Thou returnest, Holy Night;
Angel messengers descending,
Bring glad tidings to the earth,
While the heights and deeps resounding
Tell a heav'nly Saviour's birth;
While the heights and deeps resounding
Tell a heav'nly Saviour's birth.

3. Lo, sweet Mary's child adoring,
Orient kings, with myrrh and gold,
Knelt beside the happy shepherds,
Guided by the star of old.
While the holy mother, bending
O'er the babe upon her knee,
As its wondrous gaze fell on her,
Thrilled with nameless ecstasy.
As its wondrous gaze fell on her,
Thrilled with nameless ecstasy.

4. Holy Night, in starry splendor
Solemn rising on our eyes,
Oh, within our hearts rise also,
Star of Life, in us arise!
See, the earth and skies are radiant,
Love's own light doth on us fall!
Peace will yet return to bless us,
Love shall be enthroned o'er all.
Peace will yet return to bless us,
Love shall be enthroned o'er all.

Sheet Music by Charles W. Wendte from Charles W. Wendte, At Christmas Time (Boston: The Beacon Press, 1917), pp. 52-53.

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