{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/hec/hec43.htm","path":"chr/hec/hec43.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/hec/hec43.htm","text":"Hymns of the Eastern Church, by J.M. Neale, [1884]\nCanon for Christmas Day\nby S. Cosmas\n\u03b8\u03b1\u03cd\u03bc\u03b1\u03c4\u03bf\u03c2 \u1f51\u03c0\u03b5\u03c1\u03c6\u03c5\u03bf\u1fe6\u03c2 \u1f21 \u03b4\u03c1\u03bf\u03c3\u03bf\u03b2\u03cc\u03bb\u03bf\u03c2.\nThe dewy freshness that the furnace flings\n Works out a wond'rous type of future things:\n Nor did the flame the Holy Three consume,\n Nor did the Godhead's fire thy frame entomb,\n \u00a0\u00a0Thou, on Whose bosom hung the Word:\n \u00a0\u00a0Wherefore we cry with hearts endeavour,\n \u00a0\u00a0\"Let all Creation bless the Loin,\n \u00a0\u00a0And magnify His Name for ever!\"\nBabel's proud daughter once led David's race\n From Sion, to their exile's woful place:\n Babel now bids her wise men, gifts in hand,\n Before King David's Royal Daughter stand, p. 146\n \u00a0\u00a0The Mother of the Incarnate Word:\n \u00a0\u00a0Wherefore we cry with heart's endeavour,\n \u00a0\u00a0\"Let all Creation bless the Lord,\n \u00a0\u00a0And magnify His Name for ever!\"\nFrom music grief held back the exile's hand:\n \"How sing the Lord's song in an alien land?\"\n But Babel's exile here is done away,\n And Bethlehem's harmony this glorious day\n \u00a0\u00a0By Thee, Incarnate God, restored:\n \u00a0\u00a0Wherefore we cry with heart's endeavour,\n \u00a0\u00a0\"Let all Creation bless the Lord,\n \u00a0\u00a0And magnify His Name for ever!\"\nOf old victorious Babel bore away,\n The spoils of Royal Sion and her prey:\n But Babel's treasure now, and Babel's kings,\n Christ, by the guiding star, to Sion brings, p. 147\n \u00a0\u00a0There they knelt, and there ador\u2019d:\n \u00a0\u00a0Wherefore we cry with heart's endeavour,\n \u00a0\u00a0Let all Creation bless the Lord,\n \u00a0\u00a0And magnify His Name for ever!\"","title":"Hymns of the Eastern Church: S. Cosmas: Canon For Christmas Day, Ode VIII.","type":"page"}