Softly Through the Mellow Starlight

Softly through the mel­low star­light

Steals a strain of sil­ver song;

Lo

the ec­ho­ing hills pro­claim it

Waft the glad re­frain along.

Glory

glo­ry

Christ is ris­en!

Whispered in the star­lit way

List the love­ly shades re-echo

Christ the Lord is ris’n to­day.

Happy bands in shin­ing rai­ment

Fill the arch of Heav­en’s dome

Sweep their harps to strains so ten­der

Wafted from their dist­ant home.

Softly through life’s shad­ed val­ley

Comes once more the sil­ver strain

Borne on an­gel pin­ions to us

And we join the sweet re­frain.