The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #42294   Message #614429
Posted By: raredance
21-Dec-01 - 06:41 PM
Thread Name: ADD: Brightest and Best of the Sons of the Morning
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Brightest and Best Lyrics?
A version in "Early American Christmas Music" by Glenn Wilcox (1995 Mel Bay Publications) contains three more verses than the ones linked to here. I put them below. Anyone know if they are from Heber or some other source? (confession: I had to look up "refulgent")

Low at his feet we in humble prostration
Lose all our sorrow and trouble and strife;
There we receive his divine consolation,
Flowing afresh from the fountain of life.

He is our friend in the midst of temptation,
Faithful supporter whose love cannot fail;
Rock of our refuge, and hope of salvation,
Light to direct us through death's gloomy vale.

Star of the morning, they brightness, declining,
Shortly must fade when the sun doth arise:
Beaming refulgent, his glory eternal
Shines on the children of love in the skies.

rich r