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Earth has many a noble city

127

The Hymnal 1982 (Episcopal)

Metric Index

87. 87

Modality

F Major

15-Pitch Humming Index

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Adapter

William Henry Havergal

Author

Marcus Aurelius Clemens Prudentius [348-401?]

Harmonization by permission of K. D. Smith.

Harmonizer

K. D. Smith [1928-]

Language

English

Original Language

Latin

Publication Date

1985

Source

Hymns Ancient and Modern [1861]

Last Five Uses

• Used on Jan 29, 2023 10:30 as the Recessional Hymn at St. Mark's Episcopal, Honeybrook, PA
• Used on Jan 16, 2022 10:30 as the Entrance Hymn at St. Mark's Episcopal, Honeybrook, PA
• Used on Jan 17, 2016 10:00 as the Recessional Hymn at St. Andrew's Episcopal, Glenmoore, PA
• Used on Jan 05, 2014 10:00 as the Gradual Hymn at St. Andrew's Episcopal, Glenmoore, PA
• Used on Jan 27, 2013 10:00 as the Recessional Hymn at St. Andrew's Episcopal, Glenmoore, PA

Poem Words (Five verses)

Earth has many a noble city;
Bethlehem, thou dost all excel:
out of thee the Lord from heaven
came to rule his Israel.

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.

Eastern sages at his cradle
make oblations rich and rare;
see them give, in deep devotion,
gold and frankincense and myrrh.

Sacred gifts of mystic meaning:
incense doth their God disclose,
gold the King of kings proclaimeth,
myrrh his sepulcher foreshows.

Jesus, whom the Gentiles worshiped
at thy glad epiphany,
unto thee, with God the Father
and the Spirit, glory be.