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- Bethlehem! Of noblest cities,
None can once with thee compare;
Thou alone the Lord from heaven.
Didst for us incarnate bear.
- Fairer than the sun at morning,
Was the star that told his birth;
To the lands their God announcing,
Hid beneath a form of earth.
- By its lambent beauty guided,
See, the eastern kings, appear;
See them bend, their gifts to offer,
Gifts of incense, gold, and myrrh.
- Solemn things of mystic meaning!
Incense doth the God disclose;
Gold a royal Child proclaimeth;
Myrrh a future tomb foreshows.
- Holy Jesus, in thy brightness,
To the gentile world display’d,
With the Father and the Spirit,
Endless praise to thee be paid.