The Earth Knows

The world will be light for a day and a night and a day just before He comes.

Then the Light of the world will come into the world,

Prepare for the Light! Prepare for the Light!

Prepare for the light of the Son!

For the earth knows her maker, and all nature unites to sing.

For the one whose power moves all the world has come (oh, rejoice)!

Rejoice in the birth of the King!

A new star has appeared to guide wise men and seers in their search for the Promised One.

For the Light of the world has come into the world.

Come into His light. Come kneel at the sight.

Rejoice in the light of the Son.

And the earth knows her maker so all nature unites to sing.

For the one whose power moves all the world has come (oh, rejoice)!

Rejoice in the birth of the King!

Light was the sign of his coming, darkness the sign of His death.

The great mourning and howlings and cries of the people

Are matched by the earth, with tempest and quakings

As the Master of all the world draws His last breath.

For the earth knows her maker and all nature unites to mourn.

For the one whose power moves all the world has died (oh, rejoice)

For as He dies we are born!

Light was His sign of beginning, darkness His sing of the end.

But the third day comes, the Son rises again,

To walk on the earth, and rule in the heav’ns.

The creator of all the world reigns again!

And the earth knows her maker or all nature unites to sing.

For the one whose power rules all the earth, now lives (oh, rejoice)

Rejoice in the life of the King!