From Eden's Exile
- CFR Sisters
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From East, from Eden’s exile
began our searching cry:
Come, O Wisdom mighty, dawn
with radiant splendor, lightening
the sin-enshrouded eye.
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Beneath the cloud-wrapped mountain
we learned, alone, on Thee

to call, the One: O Adonai,
come once again, Your own to lead
through depths of cleansing sea.
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O Ancient Root, before Thee
kings their mouths shall stay.
Thou gave us once our shepherd-king;
from withered branch let hope now spring
again: O come, we pray.
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The city’s gates we mourn,
sundered by enemy.
Captives, we long as pilgrims free
again up to Thy House to go:
We beg You come, O Key.
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Long under pall of grief
we’ve gazed for breaking light
upon horizon’s edge: O come
Thou Dayspring, rise in heav’nly fire
to melt away the night.
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Shattered since the soured
taste of Adam’s fall:
Come, over nations’ bitter strife,
O king Desired, in justice rule;
to loving peace bring all.
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From East, from Eden’s exile
the cry of Israel
ascends in prayer across the years:
Make haste now Lord, delay no more:
O come, Emmanuel!

