Angels From the Realms of Glory

Scottish poet, James Montgomery wrote this Christmas carol. It was first printed Christmas Eve, 1816, in the Sheffield Iris, though it only became popular in churches after its 1825 reprinting in the Montgomery collection, The Christmas Psalmist and other sources.

Verses four and six are my favorite! Make sure that you don't sing this song as you peruse the lyrics- just read them as if they were a poem. You will be blessed!

Angels, from the realms of glory,

Wing your flight o'er all the earth;

Ye who sang creation's story,

Now proclaim Messiah's birth:

Come and worship, come and worship

Worship Christ, the newborn King.

Shepherds, in the fields abiding,

Watching o'er your flocks by night,

God with man is now residing,

Yonder shines the infant light:

Sages, leave your contemplations,

Brighter visions beam afar;

Seek the great Desire of nations,

Ye have seen his natal star:

Sinners, wrung with true repentance,

Doomed for guilt to endless pains,

Justice now revokes the sentence,

Mercy calls you—break your chains:

Though an infant now we view him,

He shall fill his Father's throne,

Gather all the nations to him;

Every knee shall then bow down:

All creation, join in praising

God the Father, Spirit, Son,

Evermore your voices raising,

To th'eternal Three in One:

Come and worship, come and worship

Worship Christ, the newborn King