Verses for Christmas and the New Year :: :: University of Virginia Library

Verses for Christmas and the New Year

by Horatius Bonar. Book II

Bonar, Horatius (1808-1889)

SONGS OF BETHLEHEM.

[The Babe has gone!]

[Here Peace alighted once]

[From Thy high celestial Home]

[Bethlehem, awake!]

[Sons of men, behold your King!]

[Feeding their sheep they found the Lamb of God]

SONGS OF PEACE.

[I lean upon no broken reed]

[Loving years of peace;—]

[For the coming of the Bridegroom]

[Silence! the morn is coming calmly up]

[All the past,—its joy and sadness]

[Oh, who can reckon up]

LIGHT FOR CHRISTMASTIDE.

[Hail, brightest morning of the year!]

[Sweetest of the heavenly voices]

[All, all is well]

[Sing thy new song, O Earth!]

[Peace, only peace is here]

[He came, the Child of Light]

ON THE THRESHOLD.

[Old things have passed away, behold]

[Friend of my heart]

[Again the Future has become the Past]

[Pass into the opening Year]

[Shaded or sunny shall the New Year be?]

[Peace, from the Fountainhead of peace]

Collapse All | Expand All expand section

[He came, the Child of Light]

He came, the Child of Light,
In that mysterious night
When angels brought to earth
Tidings of the great Birth—
The glad sweet news of God's eternal grace
Long hid, but shining in the Infant's face.