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NATIVITY

Copyright, Hymn and Tune Book, Unitarian

1 A thousand years have come and gone,
 * And near a thousand more,
 * Since happier light from heaven shone
 * Than ever shone before,
 * And in the hearts of old and young
 * A joy most joyful stirred,
 * That sent such news from tongue to tongue
 * As ears had never heard.

2. And we are glad, and we will sing,
 * As in the days of yore;
 * Come all, and hearts made ready bring,
 * To welcome back once more
 * The day when first on wintry earth
 * A summer change began
 * And, dawning in a lowly birth,
 * Uprose the Light of man.

Author:Thomas Toke Lynch, 1868 35