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Text:Earth has many a noble city
Author:A. C. Prudentius
Translator:E. Caswall
Tune:STUTTGART

67. Earth has many a noble city

1 Earth has many a noble city;
Bethlehem, thou dost all excel:
Out of thee the Lord of 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 sepulchre foreshows.

5 Jesus, Whom the Gentiles worshipped
At Thy glad Epiphany,
Unto Thee, with God the Father
And the Spirit, glory be.

Text Information
First Line: Earth has many a noble city
Translator: E. Caswall
Author: A. C. Prudentius
Language: English
Publication Date: 1920
Topic: The Christian Year: Epiphany
Notes: Public Domain.
Tune Information
Name: STUTTGART
Meter: 8.7.8.7.
Key: G Major or modal
Source: Gotha, 1715
Notes: Public Domain.



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