Text: | Earth has many a noble city |
Author: | Prudentius, 348-c. 413 |
Translator: | Edward Caswall, 1814-1878 |
Tune: | STUTTGART |
1 Earth has many a noble city;
Bethl'hem, thou dost all excel:
out of thee the Lord from heaven
came to rule his Israel.
2 Fairer than the sun at morning
was the star that told his birth,
to the world its God announcing
seen in fleshly form on earth.
3 Eastern sages at his cradle
make oblations rich and rare;
see them give in deep devotion,
gold and frankincense and myrrh.
4 Sacred gifts of mystic meaning:
incense doth their God disclose,
gold the King of kings proclaimeth,
myrrh his sepulcher foreshows.
5 Jesu, whom the Gentiles worshipped
at thy glad Epiphany,
unto thee with God the Father
and the Spirit glory be.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | Earth has many a noble city |
Author: | Prudentius, 348-c. 413 |
Translator: | Edward Caswall, 1814-1878 |
Meter: | 87 87 |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 2000 |
Scripture: | ; ; ; |
Topic: | Epiphany |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | STUTTGART |
Meter: | 87 87 |
Key: | G Major |
Source: | C. F. Witt's Harmonia Sacra, Gotha, 1715 (adapted) |