A47500:248
A feast of fat things full of marrow containing several Scripture songs taken out…
A feast of fat things full of marrow containing several Scripture songs taken out of the Old and New Testaments, with others composed by t[he author] : together [with o]ne hundred of divine hymns, being the first century.
London: printed by B.H., 1696
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
HYMN 14. On the Birth of CHRIST.
1 A Wake my Soul, awake my Tongue, my Glory 'wake and sing, And celebrate the holy Birth, the Birth of Israels King!
2 O happy Night that brought forth Light, which makes the Blind to see; ⟨p. 19⟩The day Spring from on high came down to cheer and visit thee.
3 The careful Shepherds with their Flocks were watching for the Moth, But better News from Heaven was brought; your Saviour is now born!
3 The careful Shepheards with their Flocks were watching for the Moth, But better News from Heav'n was brought; your Saviour is now born!