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Let Sighing Cease and Woe

by Charles Coffin

DGAGEA

Let sighing cease and woe

GGGAF#G

God from on high hath heard

GF#EBGG

Heav’n’s gate is opening wide,

F#GGC#BAGF#

And lo! The long expected word

GGGD+AB

Peace, thro’ the deep of night

C#GBBAG

The heav’nly quire breaks forth

BGGABC#D+D+

Singing with festal songs and bright

BBGGF#G

Our God and Saviors birth

The cave of Bethlehem
Those wakeful shepherds seek
Let us to rise and greet with them
That infant pure and meek
We enter at the door
What marvel meets the eye
A crib a mother pale and poor
A child of poverty

Art thou eternal Son
The eternal Fathers ray
Whose little hand thou infant one
Doth lift the world always
Yes faith through that dim cloud
Like lightning darts before
And in our hearts O babe divine
Be born abide and grow

So shall thy birthday morn
Lord Christ our birthday be
Then greet we all ourselves new born
Our King’s nativity
Borne at a virgin’s breast
Jesus be praise to thee
With sire and Holy Spirit blest
Through all eternity