1.
When marshall’d on the nightly plain,
The glittering hosts bestud the sky,
One star alone, of all the train,
Can fix the sinner’s wandering eye:
Hark! Hark! to God the chorus breaks,
From ev’ry host, from ev’ry gem;
But one alone, the Savior speaks,
It is the star of Bethlehem.
2.
Once on the raging seas I rode,
The storm was loud, the night was dark,
The ocean yawn’d, and rudely blow’d
The wind that toss’d my foundering bark.
Deep horror then my vitals froze,
Death struck-I ceased the tide to stem:
When suddenly a star arose,
It was the Star of Bethlehem.
3.
It was my guide, my light, my all,
It bade my dark foreboding cease;
And thro’ the storm and danger’s thrall,
It led me to the port of peace.
Now safely moor’d-my perils o’er,
I’ll sing first in night’s diadem,
Forever and forevermore,
The Star-the Star of Bethlehem.