A Thousand Years Have Come

A Thousand Years Have Come

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(CAROL )

1 A thousand years have come and gone,

And near a thousand more,

Since happier light from heaven shone

Than ever shone before,

And in the hearts of old and young

A joy most joyful stirred,

That sent such news from tongue to tongue

As ears had never heard.

2. And we are glad, and we will sing,

As in the days of yore;

Come all, and hearts made ready bring,

To welcome back once more

The day when first on wintry earth

A summer change began

And, dawning in a lowly birth,

Uprose the Light of man.