Lutheran Hymnody
The Hymns
EPIPHANY
128
Brightest and Best of the Sons of the Morning
11. 10. 11. 10.
Matt. 2: 11
Reginald Heber, 1811
Morning Star
John P. Harding, 1892
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Brightest and best of the sons of the morning,
Dawn on our darkness and lend us thine aid;
Star of the East, the horizon adorning,
Guide where our infant Redeemer is laid.
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