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A - wake! a-wake, and greet the new morn,
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For angels herald its dawning.
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Sing out your joy, for now he is born,
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Be - hold! the Child of our long-ing.
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Come as a ba-by weak and poor,
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To bring all hearts to-geth - er,
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He open wide the heavenly door,
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And lives now inside us for ev - er.
[Verse 2]
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To us, to all in sor-row and fear,
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Emmanuel comes a-singing,
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His humble song is quiet and near,
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Yet fills the earth with its ringing.
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Music to heal the bro-ken soul
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And hymns of loving kind - ness,
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The thunder of the anthems roll
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to shatter all hatred and blind-ness.
[Verse 3]
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In darkest night his coming shall be,
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When all the world is de-spair-ing,
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As morning light so quiet and free,
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So warm and gentle and caring.
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The shall the mute breaks forth in song,
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The lame shall leap in won - der,
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The weak be raised a-bove the strong,
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And weapons be broken a-sun-der.
[Verse 4]
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Rejoice, rejoice, take heart in the night,
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Though dark the winter and cheerless,
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The rising sun shall crown you with light,
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Be strong and loving and fear-less;
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Love be our song and love our prayer,
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And love, our endless sto - ry,
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May God fill every day we share,
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and bring us at last into glo-ry.