Tuesday, August 22, 2017

A Sound of Singing Fills the Air / Timothy Dudley-Smith

SOURCE - Hope Publishing
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A sound of singing fills the air
   in praise of all that God has done,
who sent, our human life to share,
   his Son, his own beloved Son;
      the Prince of life the Father gave,
      a wayward world to seek and save.

The sovereign King of all the earth,
   and Lord of all the worlds there are,
he chose, as emblems of his birth,
   a stable and a shining star:
      within a manger-bed to lie,
      whose fingers formed the starry sky.

He came, the Father's final Word,
   from that celestial throne above;
a child, and yet creation's Lord,
   to show the human face of Love:
      the love of god to earth come down,
      who chose the cross before the crown.

So lift our songs to fill the skies!
   From manger-crib and cattle-stall,
from cross and grave, behold him rise,
   the high-ascended Lord of all,
      whose praise the whole creation sings,

      as Lord of lords and King of kings!

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