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Songs of Christmas 
 
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 FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL 
 
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 NEW YORK 
 
 E. P. BUTTON AND COMPANY 
 
 1885 
 
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 Copyright, 1884, 
 By E. p. Button and Company. 
 
 ©nt&ersitg ^ress: 
 John Wilson and Son, Cambridge. 
 
ILLUSTRATIONS 
 
 Jessie Curtis Shepherd. 
 Wm. St. John Harper. 
 Henry Sandham. 
 W. L. Taylor. 
 
 BY 
 
 Harry Fenn. 
 
 S. G. McCutcheon. 
 John A. Fraser. 
 Geo. R. Halm. 
 
 F. Childe Hassam. 
 
 Drawn and Efigraved under the supervision of 
 George T. Andrew. 
 
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 A HAPPY Christmas to you ! 
 For the Prince of Peace is come, 
 And his reign is full of blessings, 
 
 Their very crown and sum. 
 No earthly calm can ever last, 
 'Tis but the lull before the blast; 
 But His great Peace 
 Shall still increase 
 In mighty, all-rejoicing sway : 
 His kingdom in thy heart can never pass away. 
 
" Aitd fill your soul with Christmas Song^ 
 
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 /^HRIST is come to be thy Light 
 ^^ Shining through the darkest night ; 
 He will make thy pilgrim way 
 Shine unto the perfect day. 
 Take the message ! let it be 
 Full of Christmas joy to thee ! 
 
" Wheji the glory dazzled their mortal sight.'' 
 
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 HAT was the first angelic word 
 
 That the startled shepherds heard? 
 " Fear not ! " Beloved, it comes to you 
 As a Christmas message most sweet and true ; 
 As true for you as it was for them 
 In the lonely fields of Bethlehem; 
 And as sweet to-day as it was that night, 
 When the glory dazzled their mortal sight. 
 
 OWELL the notes of the Christmas Song ! 
 ^^ Sound it forth through the earth abroad 
 Glory to God ! 
 Blessing and honor, thanks and laud ! 
 Take the joy of the Christmas Song ! 
 Are not the tidings good and true? 
 
 Peace to you, 
 And God's good-will that is ever new ! 
 
Swell the notes of the Christmas Songy 
 
r^HRIST is come to be my Friend, 
 
 Leading, loving, to the end ; 
 Christ is come to be my King, 
 Ordering, ruHng, everything; 
 ^ Chiist is come! enough for me, 
 Lonely though the pathway be. 
 
" There is silence high in the midnight sky.'' 
 
THERE is silence high in the midnight sky, 
 And only the sufferers watch the night; 
 But long ago there was song and glow, 
 
 And a message of joy from the Prince of Light; 
 And the Christmas song of the messenger-throng 
 The echoes of life shall forever prolong. 
 
UPON the same bright morning star 
 Our gaze may meet, though severed far; 
 The Star of Bethlehem to-day 
 Shines brightly on our wintry way; 
 And gazing on its radiance clear, 
 Our hearts may meet, and we are near ! 
 

 
 
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