1000 Songs/Hark the herald angels sing (Charles Wesley)

'''Hark! the herald angels sing (Wesley)'''

1000 Songs

Text

 * Hark! the herald angels sing
 * Glory to the new-born King!
 * Peace on earth and mercy mild,
 * God and sinners reconciled.
 * Joyful all ye nations rise,
 * Join the triumph of the skies,
 * With the angelic host proclaim
 * Christ is born in Bethlehem!
 * Hail the heaven-born Prince of Peace!
 * Hail the Sun of Righteousness!
 * Light and life to all he brings,
 * Risen with healing in his wings.
 * Mild, he lays his glory by;
 * Born, that man no more may die,
 * Bom to raise the sons of earth,
 * Born to give them second birth.
 * Born, that man no more may die,
 * Bom to raise the sons of earth,
 * Born to give them second birth.

Author
Charles Wesley(18 December 1707 – 29 March 1788)

Tune

 * MENDELSSOHN an adaptation of an excerpt from "Festgesang" (1844)

Arrangements
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Author biography
Charles Wesley

Author's circumstances

 * Leader of the Methodist movement


 * Wrote over 6,500 Hymns
 * Early settler of British-America

Historical setting

 * 1700s British