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Play “Brightest and Best of the Sons of the Morning”

Free same-meter accompaniment for Brightest and Best of the Sons of the Morning (Reginald Heber): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune CONSOLATOR (WEBBE) (Samuel Webbe) in four-part harmony, 6 verses, with the words on screen. Choose the key and speed, add an introduction, project the words on a TV, or practice your own choir part. Made for churches and home groups without a musician.

Sung here to CONSOLATOR (WEBBE) (Samuel Webbe), a 11.10.11.10 tune — not necessarily the tune usually paired with this text. Any tune in the same meter fits the words.

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  1. 1Brightest and best of the sons of the morning,
  2. Dawn on our darkness, and lend us thine aid;
  3. Star of the East, the horizon adorning,
  4. Guide where our infant Redeemer is laid.
  5. 2Cold on His cradle the dew-drops are shining;
  6. Low lies His head with the beasts of the stall:
  7. Angels adore Him in slumber reclining,
  8. Maker and Monarch and Savior of all!
  9. 3Shall we not yield Him, in costly devotion,
  10. Odors of Edom and off'rings divine?
  11. Gems of the mountain and pearls of the ocean,
  12. Myrrh from the forest and gold from the mine?
  13. 4Vainly we offer each ample oblation;
  14. Vainly with gifts would His favor secure:
  15. Richer by far is the heart's adoration;
  16. Dearer to God are the prayers of the poor.
  17. 5Brightest and best of the sons of the morning,
  18. Dawn on our darkness and lend us thine aid;
  19. Star of the East, the horizon adorning,
  20. Guide where our infant Redeemer is laid.
  21. 6Amen.

About this music

CONSOLATOR (WEBBE) — Samuel Webbe. Setting: "The Church Hymnal, Revised and Enlarged" (Episcopal), 1896.. The score is from the Open Hymnal Project, Music and lyrics source: "The Church Hymnal, Revised and Enlarged" (Episcopal), 1896 Ed. Charles Hutchins Hymn 637.; music and setting are in the public domain. The words above are from the hymnal cited on the Brightest and Best of the Sons of the Morning page.

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