Brightest and Best of the Sons of the Morning

Verse 1
Brightest and best of the sons of the morn­ing, (Job 38:7)
Dawn on our dark­ness and lend us Thine aid;
Star of the East, the ho­ri­zon adorn­ing,
Guide where our in­fant Re­deem­er is laid. (Matt. 2:2, Matt. 2:9-11)

Verse 2
Cold on His cra­dle the dew­drops are shin­ing;
Low lies His head with the beasts of the stall; (Luke 2:7)
Angels adore Him in slum­ber re­clin­ing,
Maker and Mon­arch and Sav­ior of all!

Verse 3
Say, shall we yield Him, in cost­ly de­vo­tion,
Odors of Ed­om and of­fer­ings di­vine?
Gems of the mount­ain and pearls of the ocean,
Myrrh from the for­est, or gold from the mine? (Matt. 2:11, Ps. 72:10-11)

Verse 4
Vainly we of­fer each am­ple obla­tion,
Vainly with gifts would His fa­vor se­cure; (Isa. 1:11-13)
Richer by far is the heart’s ad­or­ation, (Isa. 29:13, Matt. 15:8, Mark 7:6)
Dearer to God are the pray­ers of the poor. (Ps. 69:33)

Verse 5
Hail the blest morn when the great Me­di­at­or (Job 9:33, Gal. 3:19-20, I Tim. 2:5, Heb. 8:6, Heb. 9:15, Heb. 12:24)
Down from the re­gions of glo­ry des­cends. (Phil. 2:5-8)
Shepherds, go wor­ship the Babe in the man­ger;
Lo! for His guard the bright an­gels at­tend. (Luke 2:15-16)