Jesus is the star of guid­ance
Shining bright up­on our way,
Leading ev­er thro’ the dark­ness
Up to realms of end­less day.
Hail, O star that shines in splen­dor
Thro’ the dark­ness of the night!
Shining o’er the fields of er­ror,
Doubt and gloom will take their flight.

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Beautiful star, beau­ti­ful star,
Thy ra­di­ance o’er us is steal­ing;
Beautiful star, beau­ti­ful star,
To mor­tals a glo­ry re­veal­ing.

When of old the wise men jour­neyed
Where the lit­tle Christ child lay,
Up in heav’n a star so won­drous
Shone to guide them on their way;
And they saw the star of glo­ry,
Knew at once this as the sign
That to them as born a Sav­ior,
Him of roy­al Da­vid’s line.

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Bearing gifts of love they fol­low
Till they find the Lord of all
Cradled lo­wly in a man­ger,
And be­fore His feet they fall.
Then they wor­ship and ad­ore Him,
Jesus Christ the in­fant King;
Costly gifts of gold and in­cense
To His hum­ble throne they bring.

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