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<h2>EARTH HAS MANY A NOBLE CITY</h2>
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<p align="center"><h3>“Bethlehem Ephrathah, though you are small among the clans of Judah, out of you will come for Me One Who will be Ruler over Israel, Whose origins are from of old, from ancient times.” Micah 5:2</h3></p>
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<center><b>Hymns Supplied Through the Gracious Generosity<br>of the </b><a href="http://www.hymntime.com/tch/" target = "_blank"><b>Cyber Hymnal Website</b></a><br><br><a href="./hymns/hymns_html/cyberhymnal_info.html" target = "_blank">Information about Cyber Hymnal Website</a></center>
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<td><em>Words:</em> <a href="./hymns/hymns_bio/bio_p_r_prudentius_ac.html" target="_blank">Aurelius Clemens Prudentius</a> (348-413) (<em>O sola magnarum urbium</em>); translated from Latin to English by <a href="./hymns/hymns_bio/bio_c_a_caswall_e.html" target="_blank">Edward Caswall</a>, <em>Lyra Catholica</em>, 1849.
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<p><em>Music:</em> “Stuttgart,” in <em>Psalmodia Sacra</em>, by <a href="./hymns/hymns_bio/bio_w_i_witt_cf.html" target="_blank">Christian Friedrich Witt</a>, 1715; adapted by <a href="./hymns/hymns_bio/bio_g_a_gauntlett_hj.html" target="_blank">Henry John Gauntlett</a> (1805-1876) </p><p><table><tr><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_mid/mid_s_t_stuttgar.mid" target = "_blank"><img border=0 src="./hymns/hymns_img/notes.gif"><br><b>Play MIDI</b></a></td><td> </td><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_html/score_info.html" target = "_blank"><b>Link to obtain<br>musical score info</b></a></td></tr></table></p>
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<p>Earth has many a noble city;<br>
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Bethlehem, thou dost all excel;<br>
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Out of thee the Lord from heaven<br>
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Came to rule His Israel.</p>
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<p>Fairer than the sun at morning<br>
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Was the star that told His birth,<br>
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To the world its God announcing<br>
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Seen in fleshly form on earth.</p>
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<p>Eastern sages at His cradle<br>
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Make oblations rich and rare;<br>
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See them give, in deep devotion,<br>
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Gold and frankincense and myrrh.</p>
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<p>Sacred gifts of mystic meaning:<br>
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Incense doth their God disclose,<br>
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Gold the King of kings proclaimeth,<br>
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Myrrh His sepulcher foreshows.</p>
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<p>Jesu, whom the Gentiles worshipped<br>
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At Thy glad Epiphany,<br>
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Unto Thee, with God the Father<br>
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And the Spirit, glory be.</p>
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