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Hark! ’tis the prophet of the skies Proclaims redemption near; The night of death and bondage flies, The dawning tints appear. Zion, from deepest shades of gloom, Awakes to glorious day; Her desert wastes with verdure bloom, Her shadows flee away. To heal her wounds, her night dispel, The heralds cross the main; On calvary’s awful brow they tell, That Jesus lives again. From Salem’s towers, the Islam sign, With holy zeal is hurled: ’Tis there Immanuel’s symbols shine, His banner is unfurled. The gladdening news, conveyed afar, Remotest nations hear; To welcome Judah’s rising star, The ransomed tribes appear. Again in Bethlehem swells the song, The choral breaks again; While Jordan’s shores the strains prolong, “Good-will and peace to men!”
Hark! ’tis the prophet of the skies Proclaims redemption near; The night of death and bondage flies, The dawning tints appear. Zion, from deepest shades of gloom, Awakes to glorious day; Her desert wastes with verdure bloom, Her shadows flee away. To heal her wounds, her night dispel, The heralds cross the main; On calvary’s awful brow they tell, That Jesus lives again. From Salem’s towers, the Islam sign, With holy zeal is hurled: ’Tis there Immanuel’s symbols shine, His banner is unfurled. The gladdening news, conveyed afar, Remotest nations hear; To welcome Judah’s rising star, The ransomed tribes appear. Again in Bethlehem swells the song, The choral breaks again; While Jordan’s shores the strains prolong, “Good-will and peace to men!”
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- W. P. Tappan (identity unresolved)
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- In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 481 · printed citation: W. P. Tappan · subject: REDEMPTION
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