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Star in the East (Anonymous)
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Title: Star in the East
Composer: Anonymous
Number of voices: 3vv Voicing: SAB
Genre: Sacred, Shape Notes, Hymn Meter: 11 10. 11 10
Language: English
Instruments: a cappella
Published: The Southern Harmony (1854)
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Original text and translations
English text
1. Hail, the blest morn, see the great Mediator,
Down from the region of glory descend!
Shepherds, go worship the babe in the manger,
Lo, for his guard the bright angels attend.
R.: Brightest and best of the sons of the morning!
Dawn on our darkness, and lend us thine aid;
Star in the east, the horizon adorning,
Guide where our infant Redeemer was laid.
2. Cold on his cradle the dewdrops are shining;
low lise his bed, with the beasts of the stall;
Angels adore him, in slumbers reclining,
Wise men and shepherds before him do fall.
R.
3. Say, shall we yield him, in costly devotion,
Odours of Eden, and offerings divine,
Gems from the mountain, and pearls from the ocean,
Myrrh from the forest and gold from the mine?
R.
4. Vainly we offer each ample oblation,
Vainly with gold we his favour secure.
Richer by far is the heart's adoration:
Dearer to God are the prayers of the poor.
R.
