Xmas
How Brightly Beams the Morning Star

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How brightly beams the   Morning Star!
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What sudden rad   -i-  ance   from afar
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Doth glad us with its shining,
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Brightness of God that breaks our night
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And fills the darken'd      souls with light
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Who long for truth were pining!
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Thy Word, Jesus,   only    feeds us,
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Rightly leads us,
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Life    be-stow—ing;
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Praise, oh praise such love o'erflowing.

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Thou here my Comfort, there my Crown,
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Thou King of Heaven, who camest down
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To dwell as man beside me;
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My heart doth praise Thee o'er and o'er,
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   If Thou art mine     I ask no more,
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Be wealth or fame denied me;
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Thee I seek now; None who proves Thee,
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None who loves Thee
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Finds Thee fail him;
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Lord of life, Thy powers avail  him!

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Through Thee alone can       I be blest,
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Then deep be on my heart     imprest
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The love that Thou hast borne me;
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So make it ready        to fulfil
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With burning zeal    Thy holy will,
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Though men may vex or scorn me;
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Saviour, let me   Never lose Thee,
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For I choose Thee,
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Thirst to know Thee;
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All I am and have I owe Thee!

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O God, our Father      far above,
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Thee too I Praise, for      all the love
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Thou in Thy Son dost give me!
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In Him am I made one with Thee,
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My Brother and my Friend is He;
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Shall aught affright or grieve me?
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He is Greatest, Best,      and Highest,
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Ever     nighest
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To the         weakest;
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Fear no foes, if Him thou seekest!

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O praise to Him who come to save,
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Who conquer'd death and burst the grave;
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Each day new praise resoundeth
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To Him the Lamb who once  was slain,
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The Friend whom none shall trust in vain,
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Whose grace for aye    aboundeth;
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Sing, ye Heavens,      Tell the story
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Of   His   glory,
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Till    His praises
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Flood with light Earth's darkest places.