Tune Your Harps in Gladdest Song

lyricist: J. H. Horst, translated by Frederick Herzberger, 1918
Composer: Edmund Lorenz, 1918

Tune your harps to glad­dest song

Christians far and near;

Carol with the an­gel throng

Christmas time is here;

Christ the Sav­ior now is born

Born to bring all men

Long in sin and death for­lorn

Back to Heav’n again.

Sing with hap­py voice;

In the Christ­mas Child re­joice

Leading us from sin’s dark night

Into Heav­en’s shin­ing light

Into Heav­en’s shin­ing light.

God’s in­car­nate Son steps down

From His throne on high

Lays aside His migh­ty crown

Comes to serve and die;

Comes to con­quer death and hell

Set the sin­ner free;

Ransomed hosts His glo­ry tell

Through eter­ni­ty.

Welcome then with hymns of praise

Heaven’s roy­al Guest;

In your hearts His tem­ple raise

Ask Him there to rest.

He will qui­et all your fears

Bless with rich­est love

Take you from this vale of tears

To His home ab­ove.

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