How joyful is the song

1 How joyful is the song
that tells of peace and love;
of Christ, the Lord awaited long,
descending from above!

2 From God's eternal home
he stooped to time and space,
and humbly chose a virgin's womb
to be his dwelling place.

3 He lived with us on earth,
by fierce compassion driven,
his life as humble as his birth,
to show the way to heaven.

4 And lowlier, in the tomb
he did not scorn to lie,
that we frail mortals might assume
his immortality.

5 How joyful is the song
that tells of peace and love;
of Christ, the Lord awaited long,
descending from above!

Version by Michael Perry (Word and Music)(1942 - 1996) of a text by Jean Baptiste de Santeuil (1630 - 1697), translated Robert Campbell (1814 - 1868)
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