 | Bess Streeter Aldrich - Fiction - 1985 - 276 pages
...hoarse, entirely aged—but energetic. "Brightest and best of the sons of the morning! Shine on the darkness and lend us Thine aid: Star of the East, the horizon adorning . . ." Surprisingly, old Mrs. Parker felt a lessening of bitterness, a lifting of shadows. Nothing... | |
 | Jean Ritchie - Music - 1988 - 268 pages
...worship the Babe in the manger, Lo, for a guard the bright angels attend. Brightest and best of the suns of the morning, Dawn on our darkness and lend us thine...adorning, Guide where our infant Redeemer is laid. Not too slowly Hail the blest morn when the great Med - ! - a - tor Shep-herds go wor - ship the Babe... | |
 | Canterbury Press - Religion - 1989 - 540 pages
...oblation, Vainly with gifts would his favour secure; Richer by far is the heart's adoration, Brightest and best of the sons of the morning, Dawn on our darkness...adorning, Guide where our infant Redeemer is laid. Reginald Heber 1783-1 826 50 Suitable for use in Procession From the eastern mountains Pressing on... | |
 | English literature - 1862 - 602 pages
...of poetry. Bishop Hefoer frequently fell into this snare, as in his ' Brightest and best of the SOBS of the morning, Dawn on our darkness and lend us thine...East the horizon adorning, Guide where our Infant Kedeemor is laid,9 How surprising it is that Pope's celebrated apostrophe to his soul — ' Vital spark... | |
 | Albert Ramsdell Gurney - Drama - 1992 - 84 pages
...lighting and music. THE OLD BOY ACT ONE In darkness: the sound of a boy 's choir singing: "Brightest and best of the sons of the morning, Dawn on our darkness, and lend us thine aid ..."* The hymn fades into the sound of church bells chiming the hour — four pm — as Dexter... | |
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Brightest and best of the sons of the morning, Dawn on our darkness and lend us thine aid ; Star of the East, the horizon adorning, Guide where our infant Redeemer is laid. 
