Christmas Chimes

Sweetly through the night, comes the distant chime of bells,

Hark, and hear the story that their joyous pealing tells;

Like the song of angels, to us mortals given,

Comes the silver music, sounding through the star-crowned Heav'n.

List! The happy music makes all nature sound,

Hear the answering hill-tops in echo sweet resound;

'Tis of One they sing, One of lowly birth,

Who left a crown of glory, and came to sinful earth.

Now they tell the tale of shepherds from afar,

Watching through the dark night to see the glittering star;

Now they tell the story, of the wondrous love

Of Him, who lived and suffered, the Great King above.