Brightest and best
From HymnsWithoutWords
Music
- Tune: Epiphany Thrupp
- Meter: 11 10 11 10
- Style: Victorian Carol | Style: Carol
- Church Year: Christmas / Church Year: Epiphany
- Composer: Joseph Francis Thrupp (1827 - 1867)
- Lyricist: Reginald Heber (1783 - 1826)
- Music and Lyrics Copyright Public Domain
- Performance Copyright © 2011 Richard M S Irwin. Certain rights reserved.
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Carol - Brightest and best - Free MP3 Download
Available for use in worship
Epiphany.mp3
Length: 2:27 Verses: 4
Album: Hymns Without Words
Artist: Copyright Richard M S Irwin. Certain Rights Reserved
Carol - Brightest and best - Lyrics
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.
Cold on His cradle the dew-drops are shining;
Low lies His head with the beasts of the stall;
Angels adore Him in slumber reclining,
Maker and Monarch and Saviour of all!
Say, shall we yield Him, in costly devotion,
Odours of Edom and off'rings divine?
Gems of the mountain and pearls of the ocean,
Myrrh from the forest, or gold from the mine?
Vainly we offer each humble oblation,
Vainly with gifts would His favour secure;
Richer by far is the heart’s adoration,
Dearer to God are the prayers of the poor
