Bethlehem’s Beautiful Star

lyricist: Julia Johnston, 1893
Composer: Daniel Toner

List to the beau­ti­ful sto­ry

Of Beth­le­hem’s won­der­ful star

Shining in ra­di­ant glo­ry

Over the heav­ens afar.

Wonderful star! Glo­ri­ous star!

Guiding the wise men who came from afar

Softly thy light shines thro’ the night

Bethlehem’s beau­ti­ful

beau­ti­ful star

Bethlehem’s beau­ti­ful

beau­ti­ful star.

All thro’ their jour­ney so lone­ly

The pil­grims that came from the East

Followed this guid­ing light on­ly

Till the long wan­der­ing ceased.

Seeking the Sav­ior so ho­ly

Who came to be Is­ra­el’s king

Soon to His cra­dle so low­ly

Gold and frank­in­cense they bring.

Jesus

Thou star of the morn­ing

Tho’ I’m but a child in Thy sight

Turning from sin at Thy warn­ing

Gladly I fol­low Thy light.

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