Browse Carols: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z # A Thousand Years Have Come And Gone 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 send such news from tongue to tongue, As ears had never heard. 2. Then angels on their starry way Felt bliss unfelt before, For news that men should be as they To darkened earth they bore; So toiling men and spirits bright A first communion had, And in meek mercy's rising light Were each exceeding glad. 3. 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 the wintry earth A summer change began, And dawning on a lonely birth, Up rose the light of man. 4. For troubles such as man must bear, From childhood to four-score, He shared with us, that we might share His joy for ever more; And twice a thousand years of grief, Of conflict, and of sin, May tell how large the harvest sheaf His patient love shall win. Browse Carols: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z #