A Book of Hymns for Public and Private Devotion (15th ed.) 103. A Voice from the desert comes awful and shrill

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A Book of Hymns for Public and Private Devotion (15th ed.)‎#103

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Text:	“Prepare Ye the Way of the Lord!”
Author:	Drummond

103. “Prepare Ye the Way of the Lord!”

Full Text

A Voice from the desert comes awful and shrill;
The Lord is advancing; prepare ye the way!
The word of Jehovah he comes to fulfil,
And o’er the dark world pour the splendor of day.

Bring down the proud mountain, though towering to heaven,
And be the low valley exalted on high;
The rough path and crooked be made smooth and even,
For, Zion! your King, your Redeemer, is nigh.

The beams of salvation his progress illume,
The lone, dreary wilderness sings of her God;
The rose and the myrtle there suddenly bloom,
And the olive of peace spreads its branches abroad.

Text Information
First Line:	A Voice from the desert comes awful and shrill
Title:	“Prepare Ye the Way of the Lord!”
Author:	Drummond
Meter:	11s. M.
Language:	English
Publication Date:	1866
Notes:	Public Domain.