Hark! hark! my soul! Angelic songs are swelling

Hark! hark! my soul! Angelic songs are swelling. Frederick William Faber* (1814-1863). First published in Faber’s Oratory Hymns (1854) in seven 4-line stanzas, with the refrain ‘Angels of Jesus, Angels of light,/ Singing to welcome the pilgrims of the night!’ In Faber’s Hymns (1861) it was given the title ‘The Pilgrims of the Night’. It was included in the Appendix (1868) to the First Edition of A&M, with slight alterations and omitting stanzas 2 and 6: 2. Darker than night life’s shadows fall around us, And, like benighted men, we miss our mark; God hides Himself, and grace hath scarcely found us, Ere death finds out his victims in the dark. 6. Cheer up, my soul!...