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<h2>BRIGHTEST AND BEST OF THE SONS OF THE MORNING</h2>
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<p align="center"><h3>“The morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy.” Job 38:7</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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<p><img src="./hymns/hymns_img/img_h_e_heber_r.jpg" alt="Reginald Heber (1783-1826)" align="right" hspace="15" vspace="5" width="133.333333333333" height="189.333333333333"><em>Words:</em> <a href="./hymns/hymns_bio/bio_h_e_heber_r.html" target="_blank">Reginald Heber</a>, 1811. Heber originally wrote this hymn for the Feast of the Epiphany. It was first published in the <em>Christian Observer</em> in 1811, but did not appear in hymnals until after Heber’s death.</p>
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<p><em>Music:</em> “Morning Star,” James Proctor Harding, 1892 </p><p><table><tr><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_mid/mid_m_mornstr2.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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<li>“Epiphany (Wesley),” <a href="./hymns/hymns_bio/bio_w_e_wesley_ss.html" target="_blank">Samuel Sebastian Wesley</a>, 1864 </p><p><table><tr><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_mid/mid_e_p_epiphanw.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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<li>“Liebster Immanuel,” <em>Himmels-Lust</em>, 1679; adapted by <a href="./hymns/hymns_bio/bio_b_a_bach_js.html" target="_blank">Johann Sebastian Bach</a> </p><p><table><tr><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_mid/mid_l_liebstri.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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<li>“St. Ninian,” <a href="./hymns/hymns_bio/bio_d_y_dykes_jb.html" target="_blank">John Bacchus Dykes</a>, 1866 </p><p><table><tr><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_mid/mid_s_t_stninian.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>Brightest and best of the sons of the morning,<br>
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Dawn on our darkness and lend us Thine aid;<br>
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Star of the East, the horizon adorning,<br>
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Guide where our infant Redeemer is laid.</p>
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<p>Cold on His cradle the dewdrops are shining;<br>
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Low lies His head with the beasts of the stall;<br>
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Angels adore Him in slumber reclining,<br>
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Maker and Monarch and Savior of all!</p>
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<p>Shall we not yield Him, in costly devotion,<br>
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Odors of Edom and offerings divine,<br>
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Gems of the mountain and pearls of the ocean,<br>
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Myrrh from the forest, or gold from the mine?</p>
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<p>Vainly we offer each ample oblation,<br>
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Vainly with gifts would His favor secure;<br>
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Richer by far is the heart’s adoration,<br>
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Dearer to God are the prayers of the poor.</p>
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