StoryTitle("caps", "A Christmas Hymn") ?>
StoryOrigin("center", SmallCapsText("Richard Watson Gilder") ) ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(26, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Tell me what is this innumerable throng", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Singing in the heavens a loud angelic song?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "These are they who come with swift and shining feet", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "From round about the throne of God the Lord of Light to greet.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Oh, who are these that hasten beneath the starry sky,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "As if with joyful tidings that through the world shall fly?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The faithful shepherds these, who greatly were afeared", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When, as they watched their flocks by night, the heavenly host appeared.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Who are these that follow across the hills of night", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A star that westward hurries along the fields of light?", "") ?>
PagePoem(27, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Three wise men from the east who myrrh and treasure bring", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To lay them at the feet of him their Lord and Christ and King.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "What babe new-born is this that in a manger cries?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Near on her lowly bed his happy mother lies.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Oh, see the air is shaken with white and heavenly wings—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "This is the Lord of all the earth, this is the King of kings.", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>