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 The heav'nly star is telling To people yet in darkness set Of Jesus Christ, the Lord most high'st, The Sun that setteth never. The same, I say, both yesterday, Now this day, and for ever.

With triple gift three kings full swift Are hasting to adore Him: Where starlight shone, it led them on To kneel in faith afore Him. Next, on the lea some herdmen see, More sheen than light of thunder, A great and mighty wonder; When from the sky an Angel high Declar'd the birth of God on earth; The welcome Gospel story. Then hosts aloft sang loud and soft: 'To God on high be glory!'

Lord, and my God, in Bethlehem born, Sweet Babe Jesu, on Christmas morn: Hail! Everlasting Son, display'd To mortal view by Mary Maid, My Lord, and my God, in Bethlehem born.

More wonderful sight hath never bin seen; For Thou, in stable bare and mean, Though King of heav'n, art fain to rest Upon an earthly mother's breast: More wonderful sight ne'er, ne'er shall be seen.

Thou in the beginning madest the skies, Bespangling heav'n with stars for eyes: And Thou didst form this earth of ours, Adorning it with trees and flow'rs; Yet swath'd in a crib their Fashioner lies.