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| HARK! hark, my soul, angelic songs are swelling | |
| O’er earth’s green fields, and ocean’s wave-beat shore! | |
| How sweet the truth those blessèd strains are telling | |
| Of that new life when sin shall be no more! | |
| Angels of Jesus! angels of light! | 5 |
| Singing to welcome the pilgrims of the night. | |
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| Darker than night life’s shadows fall around us, | |
| And, like benighted men, we miss our mark; | |
| God hides Himself, and grace has scarcely found us | |
| Ere death finds out his victims in the dark. | 10 |
| Angels of Jesus! angels of light! | |
| Singing to welcome the pilgrims of the night. | |
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| Onward we go, for still we hear them singing, | |
| “Come, weary souls, for Jesus bids you come!” | |
| And through the dark, its echoes sweetly ringing, | 15 |
| The music of the Gospel leads us home. | |
| Angels of Jesus! angels of light! | |
| Singing to welcome the pilgrims of the night. | |
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| Far, far away, like bells at evening pealing, | |
| The voice of Jesus sounds o’er land and sea, | 20 |
| And laden souls, by thousands meekly stealing, | |
| Kind Shepherd! turn their weary steps to Thee. | |
| Angels of Jesus! angels of light! | |
| Singing to welcome the pilgrims of the night. | |
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| Rest comes at length; though life be long and dreary, | 25 |
| The day must dawn, and darksome night be past; | |
| All journeys end in welcomes to the weary, | |
| And heaven, the heart’s true home, will come at last. | |
| Angels of Jesus! angels of light! | |
| Singing to welcome the pilgrims of the night. | 30 |
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| Cheer up, my soul! faith’s moonbeams softly glisten | |
| Upon the breast of life’s most troubled sea; | |
| And it will cheer thy drooping heart to listen | |
| To those brave songs which angels mean for thee. | |
| Angels of Jesus! angels of light! | 35 |
| Singing to welcome the pilgrims of the night. | |
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| Angels! sing on, your faithful watches keeping, | |
| Sing us sweet fragments of the songs above; | |
| While we toil on, and soothe ourselves with weeping, | |
| Till life’s long night shall break in endless love. | 40 |
| Angels of Jesus! angels of light! | |
| Singing to welcome the pilgrims of the night. | |
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