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This night a wondrous revelation
Makes known to me
God’s love and grace;
The Child that merits adoration
Brings light to our benighted race;
And though a
thousand suns did shine,
Still brighter were that Light divine.
The Sun of Grace
for thee is beaming;
Rejoice, my soul, in Jesus’ birth!
The light from yonder
manger streaming
Sends forth its rays o’er all the earth.
It drives the night of sin away
And turns our darkness into day.
This Light, which all
thy gloom can banish,
The bliss of heaven glorifies;
When sun and moon
and stars shall vanish,
Its rays shall still illume the skies.
This light through all eternity
Thy heaven and all to thee shall be.
O Jesus, precious Sun of Gladness,
Fill Thou my soul with light, I pray.
Dispel the gloomy night of sadness
And teach Thou me
this Christmas Day
How I a child of light may be,
Aglow with light
that comes from Thee.
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LYRICS
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Meter:
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9 8 9 8 8 8
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Writer(s):
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Dates:
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c1683,1922
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Bible Refs:
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Is 9:2;
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MUSIC
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Name:
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O DASS ICH TAUSEND ZUNGEN
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Meter:
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9 8 9 8 8 8
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Writer(s):
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Dates:
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1738
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LIST OF MUSIC SOURCES
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Hymn/Song Book
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Song #
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Key
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| # 443 | No key |
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