Kind Friends Have Decked the Christmas Tree

Kind friends have decked the Christ­mas tree

With lights and to­kens gay;

Sweet peace and hope and li­ber­ty

Make glad all hearts to­day.

And stand­ing ’neath the glit­ter­ing boughs

With min­gled voice we sing

“O Fa­ther

hear our lov­ing vows

Who giv­est ev­ery thing.

Our life

our joys

each plea­sant home

Our gifts

each to­ken fair;

From Heav­en alone all bless­ings come

And love is reign­ing there.

O Fa­ther

shine with­in our hearts

With trust

and not in fear!

We long to find the bet­ter part;

Speak

Fa­ther: we would hear!

We sing around the Christ­mas tree;

The Christ Child bends above;

O’er all the glit­ter­ing things we see

He seems to whis­per

Love.

Ring out

O voic­es

clear and free

Wake all the qui­et air;

Ring out in joy­ous me­lo­dy

For glad­ness is a pray­er.