Hymn 155
Earth has many noble cities
1
Earth has many noble cities
Bethlem, thou supersede them
Out of thee our Lord from heaven
Come and to rule Israel.
2
The glory of star supersede
The glory of the morning sun
The star that reveal’d Jesus birth
Him that was born in the flesh.
3
Eastern sages at His cradle
Made oblations rich and rare
See them give in deep devotion
Gold and frankincense and myrth.
4
Sacred gifts of mystic meaning
Incense doth their God disclose
Gold the King of kings proclaimeth
Myrth His sepulchre foreshows.
5
Jesus whom the gentile worshipped
At thy glad Epiphany
Unto thee, with God the Father
And the Spirit glory be.