Text: | What Star Is This, with Beams So Bright |
Author: | Charles Coffin |
Translator: | John Chandler |
Tune: | PUER NOBIS (Praetorius) |
Adapter: | Michael Praetorius |
Harmonizer: | George R. Woodward |
1 What star is this, with beams so bright,
More lovely than the noonday light?
’Tis sent to announce a newborn King,
Glad tidings of our God to bring.
2 ’Tis now fulfilled what God decreed,
“From Jacob shall a star proceed";
And lo! the Eastern sages stand,
To read in heaven the Lord’s command.
3 O Jesus, while the star of grace
Impels us on to seek your face,
Let not our slothful hearts refuse
The guidance of your light to use.
4 To God the Father, heavenly Light,
To Christ, revealed in earthly night,
To God the Holy Ghost we raise
An endless song of thankful praise!
Amen.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | What star is this, with beams so bright |
Title: | What Star Is This, with Beams So Bright |
Translator: | John Chandler (1837, alt.) |
Author: | Charles Coffin (1736) |
Meter: | L.M. |
Publication Date: | 1972 |
Scripture: | |
Topic: | Christian Year: Christmas; Christian Year: Epiphany; Other Observances: Christian Education |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | PUER NOBIS (Praetorius) |
Adapter: | Michael Praetorius (1609) |
Harmonizer: | George R. Woodward (1902) |
Meter: | L.M. |
Key: | D Major |
Source: | Trier ms., 15th century |
Copyright: | Music altered from The Cowley Carol Book, No. 21; used by permission of A. R. Mowbray & Co. Limited. |