Christmas Poem by Thomas Hill

Hark! What glad voices are joyfully ringing
Through the stillness of morn o’er the yet sleep-
ing earth!
‘T is a chorus of angels in harmony singing,
'The Saviours of sinners to-day has his birth.

'Glory to God in the highest be given,
Peace and good be proclaimed upon earth,
Jesus, Messiah anointed of Heaven,
To-day of a virgin in Bethlehem has birth.'

Jesus! we hail thee, bright star of the morning,
We join with the angels in singing thy birth,
Soon may thy beams, the mid-heaven adorning,
Enlighten all people and gild the whole earth.

Then shall the built of our wars and oppression,
That sully and darken the face of the earth,
No longer demand our repentant confession,
When we sing on the day of Emmanuel’s birth.