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Alfred H. Miles, ed. The Sacred Poets of the Nineteenth Century. 1907.

By Original Hymns for Public, Private, and Social Devotion (1853). II. “Angels, from the realms of glory”

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;

Worship Christ, the new-born King.

Shepherds, in the fields abiding,

Watching o’er your flocks by night,

God with man is now residing,

Yonder shines the infant-light;

Come and worship;

Worship Christ, the new-born King.

Sages, leave your contemplations,

Brighter visions beam afar;

Seek the great Desire of Nations;

Ye have seen His natal-star;

Come and worship;

Worship Christ, the new-born King.

Saints, before the altar bending,

Watching long in hope and fear,

Suddenly, the Lord descending,

In His temple shall appear;

Come and worship;

Worship Christ, the new-born King.

Sinners, wrung with true repentance,

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.