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We Three Kings

La canción We Three Kings, también conocida como We Three Kings of Orient Are, fue escrita en 1857 por John Henry Hopkins Jr., un clérigo episcopal de los Estados Unidos. Hopkins compuso la canción para un desfile de Navidad en el Seminario Teológico General en Nueva York, donde era instructor. La canción narra el viaje de los tres Reyes Magos para visitar al recién nacido Jesucristo, con cada uno de los versos describiendo los regalos que trajer ... on: oro, incienso y mirra. Originalmente fue destinada como una canción de Navidad para una obra de teatro del seminario. Ver más [+]

We three kings of Orient are; bearing gifts we traverse afar
field and fountain, moor and mountain, following yonder star.

O-oh star of wonder, star of light, star with royal beauty bright,
westward leading, still proceeding, guide us to thy perfect light.

Born a king on Bethlehem's plain, gold I bring to crown Him again,
King forever, ceasing never, over us all to reign.

O-oh star of wonder, star of light, star with royal beauty bright,
westward leading, still proceeding, guide us to thy perfect light.

Frankincense to offer have I; incense owns a Deity nigh;
prayer and praising, voices raising, worshipping God on high

O-oh star of wonder, star of light, star with royal beauty bright,
westward leading, still proceeding, guide us to thy perfect light.

Myrrh is mine; its bitter perfume breathes a life of gathering gloom;
sorrowing sighing, bleeding, dying, sealed in the stone-cold tomb.

O-oh star of wonder, star of light, star with royal beauty bright,
westward leading, still proceeding, guide us to thy perfect light.

Glorious now behold Him arise; King and God and sacrifice:
Alleluia, Alleluia sounds through the earth and skies.

O-oh star of wonder, star of light, star with royal beauty bright,
westward leading, still proceeding, guide us to thy perfect light.