Hail the Blest Morn (Star in the East) (William Walker)
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General Information
Title: Hail the Blest Morn (Star in the East)
Composer: William Walker
Tune: "Star In The East", English, 1820.
Number of voices: 3vv Voicing: STB
Genre: Sacred, Carol
Language: English
Instruments: a cappella.
Published: The Southern Harmony
Description: Music of "Star In The East," an English tune from 1820, from Silas H. Durand, and P. G. Lester, eds., Hymn and Tune Book For Use In Old School or Primate Baptist Churches (Greenfield, Indiana: D. H. Goble, Fifth Edition, 1886), #59, p. 24.
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Original text and translations
English text
- 1.
- Hail the blest morn! when the great Mediator
- Down from the mansions of glory descends;
- Shepherds, go worship the babe in the manger,
- Lo! for his guard the bright angels attend.
- Chorus:
- 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 is laid.
- 2.
- Cold on his cradle the dew-drops are shining;
- Low lies his head with the beasts of the stall:
- Angels adore him, in slumbers reclining;
- Wise men and shepherds before him do fall. Chorus
- 3.
- Say, shall we yield him, in costly devotion,
- Odors of Edom, and offerings divine,
- Gems from the mountains, and pearls from the ocean,
- Myrrh from the forest, and gold from the mine? Chorus
- 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. Chorus
- Lyrics: Bishop Reginald Heber, 1783-1826
