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Brightest and best of the sons of the morning, Dawn on our darkness and lend us Thy 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 bed 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 offerings divine; Gems of the mountain, and pearls of the ocean, Myrrh from the forest, and gold from the mine. Vainly we offer each ample oblation, Vainly with gold would His favour secure, Richer by far is the heart’s adoration; Dearer to God are the prayers of the poor.
Brightest and best of the sons of the morning, Dawn on our darkness and lend us Thy 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 bed 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 offerings divine; Gems of the mountain, and pearls of the ocean, Myrrh from the forest, and gold from the mine. Vainly we offer each ample oblation, Vainly with gold would His favour secure, Richer by far is the heart’s adoration; Dearer to God are the prayers of the poor.
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- Bishop Heber (identity unresolved)
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- In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 422 · printed citation: Bishop Heber · subject: OFFERING
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