93. Earth has many a noble city
8.7.8.7
Stuttgart:
Gotha, 1715
Latin; Aurelius Clemens Prudentius (348-413);
Tr. Edward Caswall, 1849;
Alt., 1861
Earth has many a noble city; Bethlehem, thou dost all excel: Out of thee the Lord from heaven Came to rule his Israel. | Fairer than the sun at morning Was the star that told his birth, To the world its God announcing Seen in fleshly form on earth. | Eastern sages at his cradle Make oblations rich and rare; See them give, in deep devotion, Gold, and frankincense, and myrrh. | Sacred gifts of mystic meaning: Incense doth their God disclose, Gold the King of kings proclaimeth, Myrrh his sepulcher foreshows. | Jesus, whom the Gentiles worshipped At thy glad Epiphany, Unto thee, with God the Father And the Spirit, glory be. | |