A Christmas carol

Before the marvel of this night Adoring, fold your wings and bow, Then tear the sky apart with light And with your news the world endow. Proclaim the birth of Christ and peace, That fear and death and sorrow cease: Sing peace, sing peace, sing gift of peace. Sing peace, sing gift of peace. Awake

Hail, thou ever-blessed morn!

See amid the winter’s snow, born for us on earth below, see, the gentle Lamb appears, promised from eternal years. Hail that ever blessèd morn, hail redemption’s happy dawn, sing through all Jerusalem: Christ is born in Bethlehem.