Text: | What Star Is This? |
Author: | Charles Coffin |
Translator: | John Chandler |
Tune: | PUER NOBIS NASCITUR |
Adapter (melody): | M. Praetorius |
Harmonizer: | G. 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 heav'n the Lord’s command.
3 While outward signs the star displays,
an inward light the Lord conveys,
and urges them, with force benign,
to seek the Giver of the sign.
4 O while the star of heav'nly grace
invites us, Lord, to seek thy face,
may we no more that grace repel,
or quench that light which shines so well.
5 To God the Father, God the Son,
and Holy Spirit, Thee in one,
may ev'ry tongue and nation raise
an endless song of thankful praise.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | What star is this, with beams so bright |
Title: | What Star Is This? |
Author: | Charles Coffin (1736) |
Translator: | John Chandler (1837) |
Meter: | LM |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1985 |
Scripture: | |
Topic: | Biblical Characters: Jacob; Jesus Christ: Epiphany and Youth |
Source: | Quae stella sole pulchrior |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | PUER NOBIS NASCITUR |
Adapter (melody): | M. Praetorius (1609) |
Harmonizer: | G. R. Woodward (1910) |
Meter: | LM |
Key: | D Major |
Copyright: | Harmonization used by permission of A.R. Mowbray & Co., Ltd. |