The Lord is come! on Syrian soil
The Lord is come! on Syrian soil. Arthur Penrhyn Stanley* (1815-1881). First published in Macmillan’s Magazine (December, 1872), in six stanzas. In EH it was shortened to three stanzas, 1, 5 and 6. The omitted stanzas were:
2. The Lord is come! Dull hearts to wake,
He speaks, as never man yet spake,
The Truth which makes the servants free,
The Royal Law of Liberty.
Though heav’n and earth shall pass away,
His living words our spirits stay,
And from His treasures, new and old,
Th’eternal mysteries unfold.
3. The Lord is come! With joy behold
The gracious signs, declar’d of old,
The ear that hears, the eye that sees,
The sick restored to health and...
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