All round the earth, what wea­ry hearts are ach­ing,
And heav’n­ward go what clouds of sec­ret sighs;
What lone­ly, la­den ones from sin are wak­ing,
Turning to God, their ea­ger, hun­gry eyes.

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Heralds of Je­sus, her­alds of light,
Go where the lost are found;
Bind up each bleed­ing wound,
Go where the dark­ness is,
Drive back the night.

Lo! ships are plough­ing far, on ev­ery ocean,
And sails of traf­fic filled by ev­ery breeze;
When will God’s peo­ple, clothed with like de­vo­tion,
Send Gos­pel balm to bring the bur­dened ease?

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Star of earth’s night, great Her­ald of the morn­ing,
We see Thy sign glow in th’ho­ri­zon there;
Fresh cour­age take, all pains and per­ils scorn­ing,
And bring our gifts to Thee, with praise and pray­er.

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Lift Thou the sha­dows fill­ing thick around us,
Lord, show Thy­self, and lead Thy peo­ple on!
Break Thou the fet­ters that in sin have bound us,
And sin and sor­row shall from earth be gone.

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