All Believer Hymn Book

Hymn 499 BRIGHTEST AND BEST Lyrics

1. Brightest and best of the sons of the morning.
Dawn on our darkness and lend us Thine aid;
Star of the East, the borazon adoming
Guide where our infant Redeemer is laid.

2. Cold on His cradle the dew-drops are shining:
Low lies His head with the beasts of the stall;
Angels adore Him in slumber reclining
Maker, and Monarch, and Saviour of all.

3. Say, shall we yield Him, in costly devotion
Odors of Edom and offerings divine
Gems of the mountain and pearls of the occan,
Myrrh from the forest and fold from the mine?

4. Vainly we offer each ample oblation;
Vainly with gifts would His favour secure
Richer by far is the heart’s adoration;
Dearer to God are the prayers of the poor.

5. Brightest and best of the sons of the morning.
Dawn on our darkness, and lend us Thine aid,
Star of the East, the borazon adoming,
Guide where our infant Redeemer is laid.