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:<b>Editor:</b> [[User:Christopher R. Baker | :<b>Editor:</b> [[User:Christopher R. Baker|Christopher R. Baker]] <i>(added 2000-11-27)</i>. {{CopyCC|Attribution 1.0}} | ||
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Lyrics: <b> Reginald Heber, 1811. </b> | Lyrics: <b> Reginald Heber, 1811. </b> | ||
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- CPDL #1672:
- Editor: Christopher R. Baker (added 2000-11-27). Copyright: CC BY 1.0
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General Information
Title: Brightest and Best of the Sons of Morning
Composer: Henry Walford Davies
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Carols
Language: English
Instruments: a cappella
Published:
Description:
External websites:
Original text and translations
English text
- 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.