8: Third Lesson: Isaiah 9:1,5-6 — Rev Dr Catherine Dowland-Pillinger

William Blake: The Night of Peace: Milton’s Hymn ‘On the Morning of Christ’s Nativity’, 1809,
in the Whitworth Art Gallery.

But there will be no gloom for those
who were in anguish.
In the former time he brought into contempt
the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali,
but in the latter time he will make glorious
the way of the sea,
the land beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations.
For all the boots of the tramping warriors
and all the garments rolled in blood
shall be burned as fuel for the fire.
For a child has been born for us,
a son given to us;
authority rests upon his shoulders;
and he is named
Wonderful Counsellor, Mighty God,
Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.