Wing our flight o’er all the earth;

Ye who sang creation’s story

Now proclaim the Messiah’s birth.

Refrain

Come and worship, come and worship

Worship Christ, the newborn King.

Shepherds, in the field abiding,

Watching o’er your flocks by night,

God with us is now residing;

Yonder shines the infant light:

Refrain

Sages, leave your contemplations,

Brighter visions beam afar;

Seek the great Desire of nations;

Ye have seen His natal star.

Refrain

Saints, before the altar bending,

Watching long in hope and fear;

Suddenly the Lord, descending,

In His temple shall appear.

Refrain

Sinners, wrung with true repentance,

Doomed for guilt to endless pains,

Justice now revokes the sentence,

Mercy calls you, break your chains.

Refrain

Though an infant now we view Him,

He shall fill His Father’s throne,

Gather all nations to Him;

Every knee shall then bow down:

Refrain

All creation, join in praising

God, the Father, Spirit, Son,

Evermore your voices raising

To the eternal Three in One.

Note: In place of the verse “Sinners, wrung with true repentance…” some hymnals use the following, written in 1855 by Isaac Gregory Smith:

Lord of Heaven, we adore Thee,

God the Father, God the Son,

God the Spirit, One in glory,

On the same eternal throne.

Hallelujah! Hallelujah!

Lord of Heaven, Three in One.