The Star (John Liptrot Hatton)

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• (Posted 2023-10-26)  CPDL #76690:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-10-26).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 389 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: The Star
Composer: John Liptrot Hatton
Lyricist: Beatrice Abercrombie
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: ca. 1881 Ashdown & Parry
Description: Sacred Partsong for Mixed Voices

Original text and translations

English text

Star that once so brightly
Lit the eastern night,
Still thy radiance lingers
Mid the orbs of light.

Star that led the watchers
By thy hallowed ray,
Where the infant Saviour
Rudely cradled lay.

Through the mist of ages,
Distant, but yet clear,
Faith doth still behold thee
In the heaven appear.

And to Bethlehem guiding,
Going still before,
Thither thou dost lead us
To worship and adore.