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<h2>FROM LANDS THAT SEE THE SUN ARISE</h2>
<p align="center"><h3>&#8220;The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and will call Him Emmanuel.&#8221; Isaiah 7:14</h3></p>
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<p><img src="./hymns/hymns_img/img_n_e_neale_jm.jpg" alt="John Mason Neale (1818-1866)" align="right" hspace="15" vspace="5" width="141.333333333333" height="201.333333333333"><em>Words:</em> <a href="./hymns/hymns_bio/bio_s_e_sedulius_c.html" target="_blank">Caelius Sedulius</a>, 5th Century (<em>A solis ortus cardine</em>); translated from Latin to English by <a href="./hymns/hymns_bio/bio_n_e_neale_jm.html" target="_blank">John Mason Neale</a> in <em>Hymnal Noted</em>, 1862.</p>
<p><em>Music:</em> &#8220;St. John&#8217;s Highlands,&#8221; composer unknown </p><p><table><tr><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_mid/mid_s_t_stjohnsh.mid" target = "_blank"><img border=0 src="./hymns/hymns_img/notes.gif"><br><b>Play MIDI</b></a></td><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_html/score_info.html" target = "_blank"><b>Link to obtain<br>musical score info</b></a></td></tr></table></p>
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<p>&#8220;Alstone,&#8221; Christopher Edwin Willing (1830-1904) </p><p><table><tr><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_mid/mid_a_alstone.mid" target = "_blank"><img border=0 src="./hymns/hymns_img/notes.gif"><br><b>Play MIDI</b></a></td><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_html/score_info.html" target = "_blank"><b>Link to obtain<br>musical score info</b></a></td></tr></table></p>
<li>&#8220;Canonbury,&#8221; adapted from Robert Alexander Schumann&#8217;s &#8220;Nachtst<EFBFBD>ck,&#8221; Opus 23, No. 4, 1839 </p><p><table><tr><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_mid/mid_c_canonbur.mid" target = "_blank"><img border=0 src="./hymns/hymns_img/notes.gif"><br><b>Play MIDI</b></a></td><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_html/score_info.html" target = "_blank"><b>Link to obtain<br>musical score info</b></a></td></tr></table></p>
<li>&#8220;Duke Street,&#8221; attributed to <a href="./hymns/hymns_bio/bio_h_a_hatton_j.html" target="_blank">John Hatton</a>, 1793 </p><p><table><tr><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_mid/mid_d_duke_st.mid" target = "_blank"><img border=0 src="./hymns/hymns_img/notes.gif"><br><b>Play MIDI</b></a></td><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_html/score_info.html" target = "_blank"><b>Link to obtain<br>musical score info</b></a></td></tr></table></p>
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<p>From lands that see the sun arise,<br>
To earth&#8217;s remotest boundaries,<br>
The virgin born today we sing,<br>
The Son of Mary, Christ the King.</p>
<p>Blest Author of this earthly frame,<br>
To take a servant&#8217;s form He came,<br>
That liberating flesh by flesh,<br>
Whom He had made might live afresh.</p>
<p>In that chaste parent&#8217;s holy womb,<br>
Celestial grace hath found its home:<br>
And she, as earthly bride unknown,<br>
Yet call that Offspring blest her own.</p>
<p>The mansion of the modest breast<br>
Becomes a shrine where God shall rest:<br>
The pure and undefiled one<br>
Conceived in her womb the Son.</p>
<p>That Son, that royal Son she bore,<br>
Whom Gabriel&#8217;s voice had told afore:<br>
Whom, in his Mother yet concealed,<br>
The Infant Baptist had revealed.</p>
<p>The manger and the straw He bore,<br>
The cradle did He not abhor:<br>
A little milk His infant fare<br>
Who feedeth even each fowl of air.</p>
<p>The heavenly chorus filled the sky,<br>
The angels sang to God on high,<br>
What time to shepherds watching lone<br>
They made creation&#8217;s Shepherd known.</p>
<p>All honor, laud, and glory be,<br>
O Jesu, virgin born, to Thee;<br>
All glory, as is ever meet,<br>
To the Father and to Paraclete.</p>
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<p align="center">Latin</p>
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