{"collection":"Judaism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/jud/uh/uh22.htm","path":"jud/uh/uh22.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/jud/uh/uh22.htm","text":"The Union Haggadah, ed. by The Central Council of American Rabbis [1923]\n\"and it came to pass at midnight.\"\nAll read the third line of each stanza in unison.\nAll the earth was sunk in night\n When God said \"Let there be light!\"\n \u00a0\u00a0Thus the day was formed from midnight.\nSo was primal man redeemed\n When the light of reason gleamed\n \u00a0\u00a0Through the darkness of the midnight.\nTo the Patriarch, God revealed\n The true faith, so long concealed\n \u00a0\u00a0By the darkness of the midnight.\nBut this truth was long obscured\n By the slavery endured\n \u00a0\u00a0In the black Egyptian midnight.\nTill the messengers of light\n Sent by God, dispelled the night,\n \u00a0\u00a0And it came to pass at midnight. p. 116\nThen the people God had freed\n Pledged themselves His law to heed,\n \u00a0\u00a0And it came to pass at midnight.\nWhen they wandered from the path\n Of the Lord, His righteous wrath\n \u00a0\u00a0Hurled them into darkest midnight.\nBut the prophets\u2019 burning word\n By repentant sinners heard\n \u00a0\u00a0Called them back from darkest midnight.\nGod a second time decreed\n That His people should be freed\n \u00a0\u00a0From the blackness of the midnight.\nSongs of praise to God ascend,\n Festive lights their glory lend\n \u00a0\u00a0To illuminate the midnight.\nSoon the night of exile falls\n And within the Ghetto walls\n \u00a0\u00a0Israel groans in dreary midnight.\nAnxiously with God they plead,\n Who still trust His help in need,\n In the darkest hour of midnight.\nAnd He hears their piteous cry.\n \"Wait! be strong, My help is nigh,\n \u00a0\u00a0Soon \u2018twill pass\u2014the long-drawn midnight.\n\"Tenderly I cherished you\n For a service great and true;\n \u00a0\u00a0When \u2018tis past\u2014the long-drawn midnight.\" p. 117\nO, Thou Guardian of the Right,\n Lead us onward to the light\n \u00a0\u00a0From the darkness of the midnight.\nFather, let the day appear\n When all men Thy name revere\n \u00a0\u00a0And Thy light dispels the midnight.\nWhen no longer shall the foe\n From th\u2019 oppressed wring cries of woe\n \u00a0\u00a0In the darkness of the midnight.\nBut Thy love all hearts shall sway;\n And Thy light drive gloom away,\n \u00a0\u00a0And to midday change the midnight.\n \n \nClick to enlarge\nRELIGIOUS LIBERTY","title":"The Union Haggadah: After the Meal: Vay\u2019hi Ba\u1e25atzi Halay'loh","type":"page"}