GOD FROM ON HIGH HAS HEARD

[1]
God from on high has heard;
let sighs and sorrows cease;
the skies unfold, and lo,
descends the gift of peace.

[2]
Hark, on the midnight air
celestial voices swell;
the hosts of heaven proclaim,
'God comes on earth to dwell.'

[3]
Haste with the shepherds; see
the mystery of grace:
a manger-bed, a child,
is all the eye can trace.

[4]
Is this the eternal Son,
who on the starry throne
before the worlds begun
was with the Father one?

[5]
Yes, faith can pierce the gloom
which shrouds his glory now,
and hail him God and Lord,
to whom all creatures bow.

[6]
O child, your silence speaks,
and bids us not refuse
to hear what flesh would shun,
to spurn what flesh would choose.

[7]
Fill us with holy love
and heal our earthly pride;
born in each lowly heart,
for ever there abide.