O let your mingling voices rise

In grateful rapture to the skies,

And hail a Saviour’s birth;

Let songs of joy the day proclaim,

When Jesus all-triumphant came

To bless the sons of earth.

2 He came to bid the weary rest;

To heal the sinner’s wounded breast;

To bind the broken heart;

To spread the light of truth around;

And to the world’s remotest bound,

The heavenly gift impart.

3 He came, our trembling souls to save

From sin, from sorrow, and the grave,

And chase our fears away;

Victorious over death and time,

To lead us to a happier clime,

Where reigns eternal day.