CONTENTS.

THE ETERNAL PURPOSE.

The birth of Him that no beginning knew.("Christ's Triumph in Heaven")

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Who can forget, never to be forgot ("Christ's Triumph in Heaven ")

Giles Fletcher

J. R. S.

7

Edmund Spenser

Lo He! who, entering these foul cells of flesh (from the Latin)
A Hymn of Heavenly Love.
Man disobeying, disloyal, breaks his fealty ("Paradise Lost," book iii.)

Thou in thy thought art pondering ("Paradise," canto vii., Cary's trans-
lation)

So when of old the Almighty Father sate ("The Hind and Panther")

Messiah

To conquer and to save, the Son of God

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Dante 22

John Dryden 26

Alexander Pope 27

Reginald Heber 31

For Thou wert born of woman ("The Fall of Jerusalem") Henry H. Milman 63

From heaven above to earth I come (translated by C. Winkworth)

The midnight is as bright as day!

Peace! and to all the world

Prudentius' Christmas Hymn (from the Latin)

Run, shepherds, run, where Bethlehem blest appears

O than the fairest day, thrice fairer night

It was the calm and silent night

87

No room for Judah's daughter, David's heir

89

She gave with joy her virgin breast (translated from Ottfried's Metrical

O happy day, when this our state (from the Latin)

John Milton

Isaac Williams 124

123

Lo! the eighth bright morn is flinging

W. J. Blew

125

Jerusalem, why are thy voices dumb ("Verses for Holy Seasons") C. F. H.

127

Who are they, travelling from afar ("Verses for Holy Seasons") C. F. H.

133

Deep in Sabea's fragrant groves retired

Mrs. Barbauld 134

Fair eastern star, that art ordained to run

Sir J. Beaumont 138