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#127 from The Hymnal 1982 (Episcopal)
Earth has many a noble city
Tune
Stuttgart
Metric Index
87. 87
Key & Modality
F Major
Last five uses
January 29th, 2023 at St. Mark's Episcopal, Honeybrook, PA for the Recessional Hymn
January 16th, 2022 at St. Mark's Episcopal, Honeybrook, PA for the Entrance Hymn
January 17th, 2016 at St. Andrew's Episcopal, Glenmoore, PA for the Recessional Hymn
January 5th, 2014 at St. Andrew's Episcopal, Glenmoore, PA for the Gradual Hymn
January 27th, 2013 at St. Andrew's Episcopal, Glenmoore, PA for the Recessional Hymn
Poem Words (five verses)
1.
Earth has many a noble city;
Bethlehem, thou dost all excel:
out of thee the Lord from heaven
came to rule his Israel.
Bethlehem, thou dost all excel:
out of thee the Lord from heaven
came to rule his Israel.
2.
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.
was the star that told his birth,
to the world its God announcing
seen in fleshly form on earth.
3.
Eastern sages at his cradle
make oblations rich and rare;
see them give, in deep devotion,
gold and frankincense and myrrh.
make oblations rich and rare;
see them give, in deep devotion,
gold and frankincense and myrrh.
4.
Sacred gifts of mystic meaning:
incense doth their God disclose,
gold the King of kings proclaimeth,
myrrh his sepulcher foreshows.
incense doth their God disclose,
gold the King of kings proclaimeth,
myrrh his sepulcher foreshows.
5.
Jesus, whom the Gentiles worshiped
at thy glad epiphany,
unto thee, with God the Father
and the Spirit, glory be.
at thy glad epiphany,
unto thee, with God the Father
and the Spirit, glory be.
Hymn References
Adapter
William Henry Havergal
Author
Marcus Aurelius Clemens Prudentius 348-401?
Harmonizer
K. D. Smith 1928-
Original Language
Latin
Publication Date
1985
Source
Hymns Ancient and Modern 1861
Other Hymns By Tune (in Zack's Database)
#455 in Evangelical Lutheran Worship / Crashing waters at creation (F Major ) [click to view]#66 in The Hymnal 1982 (Episcopal) / Come, thou long-expected Jesus (F Major ) [click to view]
#414 in The Hymnal 1982 (Episcopal) / God, my King, thy might confessing (F Major ) [click to view]
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