| Alfred H. Miles, ed. The Sacred Poets of the Nineteenth Century. 1907. | | | Original Hymns for Public, Private, and Social Devotion (1853).
II. “Angels, from the realms of glory” | | By James Montgomery (1771–1854) |
| | | ANGELS, from the realms of glory, | |
| Wing your flight o’er all the earth; | |
| Ye who sang creation’s story | |
| Now proclaim Messiah’s birth; | |
| Come and worship; | 5 |
| Worship Christ, the new-born King. | |
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| Shepherds, in the fields abiding, | |
| Watching o’er your flocks by night, | |
| God with man is now residing, | |
| Yonder shines the infant-light; | 10 |
| Come and worship; | |
| Worship Christ, the new-born King. | |
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| Sages, leave your contemplations, | |
| Brighter visions beam afar; | |
| Seek the great Desire of Nations; | 15 |
| Ye have seen His natal-star; | |
| Come and worship; | |
| Worship Christ, the new-born King. | |
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| Saints, before the altar bending, | |
| Watching long in hope and fear, | 20 |
| Suddenly, the Lord descending, | |
| In His temple shall appear; | |
| Come and worship; | |
| Worship Christ, the new-born King. | |
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| Sinners, wrung with true repentance, | 25 |
| Doomed, for guilt, to endless pains, | |
| Justice now revokes the sentence, | |
| Mercy calls you—break your chains; | |
| Come and worship; | |
| Worship Christ, the new-born King. | 30 | | | |
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