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.