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Editor: Christopher R. Baker (submitted 2000-11-27). Copyright: CC BY 1.0

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Title: WALLOG Brightest and Best of the Sons of Morning
Composer: Henry Walford Davies

Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB

Genre: Sacred, Carol

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

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See also Brightest and best (Traditional) for other tunes associated with this text

Original text and translations may be found at Brightest and best.

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 ==Original text and translations==
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-::::''1.''
-:Brightest and best of the sons of the morning,
-:Dawn on our darkness and lend us Thine aid;
-:Star of the East, the horizon adorning,
-:Guide where our infant Redeemer is laid.
-::::''2.''
-:Cold on His cradle the dewdrops are shining;
-:Low lies His head with the beasts of the stall;
-:Angels adore Him in slumber reclining,
-:Maker and Monarch and Savior of all!
-::::''3.''
-:Say, shall we yield Him, in costly devotion,
-:Odors of Edom and offerings divine?
-:Gems of the mountain and pearls of the ocean,
-:Myrrh from the forest, or gold from the mine?
-::::''4.''
-:Vainly we offer each ample oblation,
-:Vainly with gifts would His favor secure;
-:Richer by far is the heart’s adoration,
-:Dearer to God are the prayers of the poor.
-Lyrics:''' Reginald Heber, 1811. '''
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