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THE EPIPHANY

 
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STUTTGART. (87. 87.)
 
Adapted from a melody in
Moderately slow, majestically 𝅗𝅥 = 66.
'Psalmodia Sacra,' Gotha, 1715.

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>>
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\midi { \tempo 2 = 66 }

Prudentius, b. 348. Tr. E. Caswall.

O sola magnarum urbium.

BETHLEHEM, of noblest cities
None can once with thee compare;
Thou alone the Lord from heaven
Didst for us incarnate bear.

2 Fairer than the sun at morning
Was the star that told his birth;
To the lands their God announcing,
Hid beneath a form of earth.

3 By its lambent beauty guided
See the eastern kings appear;
See them bend, their gifts to offer,
Gifts of incense, gold and myrrh.

4 Solemn things of mystic meaning:
Incense doth the God disclose,
Gold a royal child proclaimeth,
Myrrh a future tomb foreshows.

Unison. 5. Holy Jesu, in thy brightness
To the Gentile world displayed,
With the Father and the Spirit
Endless praise to thee be paid. Amen.


<<
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  \relative c'' { << { g1 g \bar"||" } \\ { e d } >> } }
\new Lyrics \lyricmode { A -- men. }
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  \relative c' { << { c1 b } \\ { c,1 g } >> } }
>>
\layout { indent = #0 }
\midi { \tempo 2 = 66 }

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