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Earth Has Many A Noble City [#EarthHasMany #ManyANobleCity #ANobleCity #NobleCity]

Song written by:
Original in Latin: Aurelius Prudentius Clemens (Roman province of Tarraconensis (now Northern Spain), 348 – Iberian Peninsula, 413)
Translated to English from Latin: Edward Caswall (Yateley, Hampshire, England, UK, July 15, 1814, – Oratory, Edgbaston, Birmingham, England, UK, January 2, 1878)

1
Earth has many a noble city
Bethlehem thou dost all excel
Out of thee the Lord from Heaven
Came to rule His Israel

2
Fairer than the sun at morning
Was the star that told His birth
To the world its God announcing
Seen in fleshly form on earth

3
Eastern sages at His cradle
Make oblations rich and rare
See them give in deep devotion
Gold and frankincense and myrrh

4
Sacred gifts of mystic meaning
Incense doth their God disclose
Gold the King of kings proclaimeth
Myrrh His sepulcher foreshows

5
Jesu whom the Gentiles worshipped
At Thy glad Epiphany
Unto Thee with God the Father
And the Spirit glory be

Earth Has Many A Noble City [#EarthHasMany #ManyANobleCity #ANobleCity #NobleCity]