For Epiphany

Words: Que stella sole pulchrier, Charles Coffin, Paris Breviary (1676-1749), 1736

Music: "Quae Stella," Michael Praetorius
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Source: J. H. Hopkins, ed., Great Hymns of the Church Compiled by the Late Right Reverend John Freeman Young (New York: James Pott & Company, 1887), #80, p. 125.

1. Quæ stella sole pulchrior
Coruscat? haæ Regis novi
Revelat ortus: hæc Dei
Præsignat ad cunas iter.

2. Stat vatibus priscis fides,
En Stella surgit ex Jacob:
Arrectus ad spectaculum
Eous orbis emicat.

3. Dum sidus admonet soris,
Lux fulget intus clarior:
Suadetque vi blandâ magos
Signi datorem quærere.

4. Segnes amor neseit moras:
Labor, pericla, nil movent;
Domum, propinquos, patriam,
Deo vocante, deserunt.

5. Micante dum nos allicis,
O Christe, Stellâ gratiæ,
Ne tarda cœlesti finas
Obstare corda lumini.

6. Qui lumen est, sit laus Patri
Qui se revelat gentibus,
Sit laus Patri, laus Filio,
Par sit tibi laus, Spiritus. Amen.

Sheet Music from J. H. Hopkins, ed., Great Hymns of the Church Compiled by the Late Right Reverend John Freeman Young (New York: James Pott & Company, 1887), #80, p. 125.

"Melody first published in 1604.
Harmonized by M. Prätorius, 1604."

Translations include:

What Star Is This, With Beams So Bright - Version 1
What Star Is This, With Beams So Bright - Version 2
What Star Is This, With Beams So Bright - Version 3
What Star Is This, With Beams So Bright - Version 4
What Star Is This, With Beams So Bright - Version 5