GLORY TO GOD

399

HEPHERDS, watching o'er your flocks,
As the darkness steals around;

SH

Hark! what melody divine,

Floods the sky with wondrous sound.

CHORUS:

Gloria in excelsis Deo.

Lift your wondering eyes to heaven,
Choirs of Angels gathered there,
In the solemn midnight hour,
Break the stillness of the air.
Gloria in excelsis Deo.

Stay not on the bleak hill-side,
Hasten, shepherds, to obey;
To adore your infant Child,
Angels beckon you away.

Gloria in excelsis Deo.

Where the ox and ass are stalled,
There a Babe in swaddling bands,
You to greet, and you to bless,
Lifts His tiny infant hands.

Gloria in excelsis Deo.

Kneel down shepherds, bow your heads, Deep the mystery of Love;

He is God and He is Man,

Here on earth-in heaven above.

Gloria in excelsis Deo.

Mary, Joseph, shepherds, too,
Join the angel-choir on high;
Make heaven's highest arches ring
Through the deep dark midnight sky.
Gloria in excelsis Deo.

400

Anon.

WHAT sudden blaze of song

WHA

Spreads o'er the expanse of heaven!

In waves of light it thrills along,

Th' angelic signal given :

"Glory to God on high, on earth be peace And love towards men, of love, salvation and release!"

Like circles widening round,

Upon a clear blue river;

Orb after orb, the wondrous sound

Is echoed on for ever:

"Glory to God on high, on earth be peace And love towards men, of love, salvation and release!"

J. Keble.

INDICES

INDEX OF

AUTHORS AND TRANSLATORS

The dates of the birth and death of the authors are given
in brackets. Where a translator's name is given, (tr.) is added
to the number of the Hymn.

Adams, Sarah (1805-1848), 171.

Addison, Joseph (1672-1719), 41, 47, 318.

Alexander, Cecil Frances (1823), 86, 179, 346, 351, 358, 397.
Alford, Henry, Dean (1810-1871) 219, 291.

Alstyne, Van Frances J., 88.

Anon., 15, 19, 113, 119, 129, 186, 187, 202, 211, 233, 272,
285, 293, 294, 308, 329, 334, 339, 363, 388, 391, 393,
399.

Anstice, Joseph (1808-1836), 155.

Auber, Harriet (1773-1862), 100.
Austin, John (1613-1669), 114, 189.
Ayres, 74.

Baines, M. A., 55.

Barnes-Mathews, M., 117.

Barton, Bernard (1784-1849), 292.

Bathurst, William Hiley (1796-1877), 203, 207.

Baxter, Richard (1615-1691), 266.

Baynes, R. H., 336.

Bickersteth, Edward Henry, Bishop (1825), 93, 95.

Blake, T. W. Jex, 319.

Blake, W. (1757-1827), 262.

Bliss, P. P., 85, 92.

Blomfield, Dorothy (1858), 156.

Blunt, Abel Gerald Wilson (1827), 372.

Bode, John Ernest (1816-1874), 146.

Bonar, Horatius (1808-1889), 83, 104, 106, 165, 176, 240,

259, 269.