Joy Fills Our Inmost Hearts Today!

Joy fills our in­most hearts to­day!

The roy­al Child is born:

And an­gel hosts in glad ar­ray

His ad­vent keep this morn.

Rejoice

re­joice! Th’in­car­nate Word

Has come on earth to dwell;

No sweet­er sound than this is heard

Emmanuel!

Low at the cra­dle throne we bend

We won­der and ad­ore;

And feel no bliss can ours trans­cend

No joy was sweet be­fore.

For us the world must lose its charms

Before the man­ger shrine

When

fold­ed in Thy moth­er’s arms

We see Thee

Babe di­vine.

Thou Light of un­cre­at­ed Light

Shine on us

ho­ly Child;

That we may keep Thy birth­day bright

With serv­ice un­de­filed.