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<h2>HARK! HARK, MY SOUL!</h2>
<p align="center"><h3>&#8220;Joy comes in the morning.&#8221; Psalm 30:5</h3></p>
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<td><img src="./hymns/hymns_img/img_f_a_faber_fw.jpg" alt="Frederick William Faber, 1860" width="134.666666666667" height="192"></td>
<td><em>Words:</em> <a href="./hymns/hymns_bio/bio_f_a_faber_fw.html" target="_blank">Frederick William Faber</a>, 1854.
<p><em>Music:</em> &#8220;Pilgrims,&#8221; <a href="./hymns/hymns_bio/bio_s_m_smart_ht.html" target="_blank">Henry Thomas Smart</a>, 1868 </p><p><table><tr><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_mid/mid_p_pilgrims.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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<li>&#8220;Vox Angelica,&#8221; <a href="./hymns/hymns_bio/bio_d_y_dykes_jb.html" target="_blank">John Bacchus Dykes</a>, 1868 </p><p><table><tr><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_mid/mid_v_voxangel.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>Hark! hark, my soul! angelic songs are swelling,<br>
O&#8217;er earth&#8217;s green fields and ocean&#8217;s wave-beat shore:<br>
How sweet the truth those bless&egrave;d strains are telling<br>
Of that new life when sin shall be no more.</p>
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<p class="refrain">Angels of Jesus, angels of light,<br>
Singing to welcome the pilgrims of the night!</p>
<p>Onward we go, for still we hear them singing,<br>
&#8220;Come, weary souls, for Jesus bids you come&#8221;;<br>
And through the dark, its echoes sweetly ringing,<br>
The music of the Gospel leads us home.</p>
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<p>Far, far away, like bells at evening pealing,<br>
The voice of Jesus sounds o&#8217;er land and sea;<br>
And laden souls, by thousands meekly stealing,<br>
Kind Shepherd, turn their weary steps to Thee.</p>
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<p>Rest comes at length: though life be long and dreary,<br>
The day must dawn, and darksome night be past;<br>
Faith&#8217;s journeys end in welcome to the weary,<br>
And heaven, the heart&#8217;s true home, will come at last.</p>
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<p>Angels, sing on, your faithful watches keeping;<br>
Sing us sweet fragments of the songs above,<br>
Till morning&#8217;s joy shall end the night of weeping,<br>
And life&#8217;s long shadows break in cloudless love.</p>
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