Words: Rev. Thomas Edward Brown
Music: W. H. Gill
Carol 378,
Rev. Charles Lewis Hutchins,
Carols Old and Carols
New
(Boston:
Parish Choir, 1916)
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1. Three
Kings from out the Orient
For Judah's land were fairly bent
To
find the Lord of grace;
And as they journeyed pleasantlie
A
star kept shining in the sky,
To guide them to the place.
Chorus
"O Star," they cried, " by all confest,
Withouten dreed the lovliest!"
2. The
first was Melchior to see,
The emp'ror knight of Arabye,
An
aged man, I trow;
He set upon a rouncy bold,
Had taken of the
red and gold,
The babe for to endow. Chorus
3. The
next was Gaspar young and gay,
That held the realm of far
Cathay--
Our Jesus drew him thence,--
Y-clad in silks from head
to heel,
He rode upon a high cameel
And bar the frankincense.
Chorus
4. The
last was dusky Balthasar
That rode upon a dromedar,
His coat
was of the fur;
Dark-browed he came from Samarkand,
The Christ
to seek, and in his hand
Upheld the bleeding myrrh. Chorus
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Music from Rev. Charles L. Hutchins, Carols Old and Carols
New
(Boston: Parish Choir, 1916), Carol 378
