Fourth Sunday Meditation: Messiah! At Thy Glad Approach

"Lamb of God"
Tom Dubois

Messiah! at Thy glad approach

The howling winds are still;

Thy praises fill the lonely waste,

And breathe from every hill.

The incense of the spring ascends

Upon the morning gale;

Red o'er the hill the roses bloom,

The lilies in the vale.

Renewed, the earth a robe of light,

A robe of beauty wears;

And in new heav'ns a brighter Sun

Leads on the promised years.

Let Israel to the Prince of Peace

The loud hosanna sing;

With hallelujahs, and with hymns,

O Zion,  hail thy King.

Messiah! At Thy Glad Approach!

Words by Michael Bruce

(1764)

First published by Joshua Logan

in his "Poems"

(1781)

Music by Henry Ward Beecher

for "Plymouth Collection Of Hymns And Tunes"

(1855)