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'{{Short description|Christmas carol}} {{Infobox musical composition | name = Angels from the Realms of Glory | type = | image = Madonna with child and angels.jpg | alt = | caption = "Madonna with child and angels" by [[Giovanni Battista Salvi da Sassoferrato]] | translation = <!-- to English, if hymn name is a different language --> | native_name = <!-- if hymn name is the translation --> | native_name_lang = <!-- two-letter code --> | composer = | genre = [[Hymn]] | occasion = | text = [[James Montgomery (poet)|James Montgomery]] | language = | written = 1816 | based_on = {{Sourcetext|source=Bible|version=King James|book=Luke|chapter=2|verse=10}} | meter = 8.7.8.7.8.7 | melody = "Regent Square" by [[Henry Smart]] <br> "Les anges dans nos campagnes" (French traditional) | composed = <!-- {{Timeline-event|date={{Start date|YYYY|MM|DD|df=y}}|end_date={{End date|YYYY|MM|DD|df=y}}|location=}} --> | published = | misc = }} {{Listen|filename=Angels from the Realms of Glory.ogg|title=Angels from the Realms of Glory|description=Tune for ''Angels from the Realms of Glory''}} '''"Angels from the Realms of Glory"''' is a [[Christmas carol]] written by Scottish poet [[James Montgomery (poet)|James Montgomery]].<ref name=bradley>Bradley, Ian. ''The Penguin Book of Carols''. Penguin (1999), p27–29. {{ISBN|0-14-027526-6}}.</ref> It was first printed in the ''[[Sheffield Iris]]'' on [[Christmas Eve]] 1816, though it only began to be sung in churches after its 1825 reprinting in the Montgomery collection ''The Christian Psalmist'' and in the [[Religious Tract Society]]'s ''The Christmas Box or New Year's Gift''.<ref name="bradley"/> ==Tune== Before 1928, the hymn was sung to a variety of tunes, including "Regent Square" by [[Henry Smart]], "Lewes" by [[John Randall (organist)|John Randall]], and "Wildersmouth" or "Feniton Court" by [[Edward John Hopkins|Edward Hopkins]].<ref name=bradley/> In the United States, "Regent Square" is the most common tune.<ref name=bradley/> In the United Kingdom, however, the hymn came to be sung to the French carol tune "Iris"<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.christmas-carols.org.uk/christmas-carols/angels-from-the-realms-of-glory |title=Angels from the Realms of Glory |access-date=2009-12-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091227072931/http://www.christmas-carols.org.uk/christmas-carols/angels-from-the-realms-of-glory |archive-date=2009-12-27 |url-status=dead }}</ref> (''Les anges dans nos campagnes'', the tune used for "[[Angels We Have Heard on High]]") after this setting was published in the ''[[Oxford Book of Carols]]''.<ref name=bradley/> Sometimes the "[[Gloria in excelsis Deo]]" refrain is even sung in place of Montgomery's original lyric: "Come and worship Christ the new-born King". The name for the "Regent Square" tune is reportedly an association with the publisher of the first hymnal to contain it, [[James Hamilton (1814–1867)|James Hamilton]], who was the minister of the Regent Square Church [[Regent Square (London)|situated in London]].<ref>''Psalter Hymnal Handbook'', 1987, cited in {{cite web |title=Tune: REGENT SQUARE (Smart) |url=https://hymnary.org/tune/regent_square_smart |website=Hymnary.org |access-date=5 March 2021 |language=en}}</ref> ==Text== {{Wikisource|Angels, from the Realms of Glory}} Come and worship,<br /> Come and worship <br /> Worship Christ, the newborn King.<br /> <br /> Angels, from the realms of glory,<br /> Wing your flight o'er all the earth;<br /> Ye who sang creation's story,<br /> Now proclaim Messiah's birth:<br /> <br /> Come and worship,<br /> Come and worship <br /> Worship Christ, the newborn King.<br /> <br /> Shepherds, in the fields abiding,<br /> Watching o'er your flocks by night,<br /> God with man is now residing,<br /> Yonder shines the infant light:<br /> <br /> Come and worship,<br /> Come and worship <br /> Worship Christ, the newborn King.<br /> <br /> Sages, leave your contemplations,<br /> Brighter visions beam afar;<br /> Seek the great Desire of nations,<br /> Ye have seen his natal star:<br /> <br /> Come and worship,<br /> Come and worship <br /> Worship Christ, the newborn King.<br /> <br /> Sinners, wrung with true repentance,<br /> Doomed for guilt to endless pains,<br /> Justice now revokes the sentence,<br /> Mercy calls you—break your chains:<br /> <br /> Come and worship,<br /> Come and worship <br /> Worship Christ, the newborn King.<br /> <br /> Though an infant now we view him,<br /> He shall fill his Father's throne,<br /> Gather all the nations to him;<br /> Every knee shall then bow down:<br /> <br /> Come and worship,<br /> Come and worship <br /> Worship Christ, the newborn King.<br /> <br /> All creation, join in praising<br /> God the Father, Spirit, Son,<br /> Evermore your voices raising,<br /> To th'eternal Three in One:<br /> <br /> Come and worship,<br /> Come and worship <br /> Worship Christ, the newborn King.<br /> <br /> Saints before the altar bending,<br /> Watching long in hope and fear,<br /> Suddenly the Lord, descending,<br /> In his temple shall appear.<br /> <br /> Come and worship,<br /> Come and worship <br /> Worship Christ, the newborn King.<br /> <br /> Angels, from the realms of glory,<br /> Wing your flight o'er all the earth;<br /> Ye who sang creation's story,<br /> Now proclaim Messiah's birth:<br /> <br /> Come and worship,<br /> Come and worship <br /> Worship Christ, the newborn King.<br /> <br /> Come and worship,<br /> Come and worship <br /> Worship Christ, the newborn King.<br /> <br /> Worship Christ, the newborn King.<br /> <ref>{{cite book|title=Worship II: A Hymnal for Roman Catholic Parishes|url=https://archive.org/details/worshipiihymnalf00bata|url-access=registration|year=1975|publisher=G.I.A. Publications, Inc.|location=Chicago, Illinois|pages=23}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{authority control}} [[Category:Christmas carols]] [[Category:1816 songs]] [[Category:Scottish folk songs]] [[Category:Protestant hymns]] [[Category:Epiphany music]] [[Category:Songs with lyrics by James Montgomery (poet)]]'