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Contains JSON data on the Trinity Hymnal
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{
"title": "Brightest and best of the sons of the morning",
"author": "",
"tune": "Morning Star",
"number": "167",
"lyrics": "Brightest and best of the sons of the morning,\nDawn on our darkness, and lend us thine aid;\nStar of the East, the horizon adorning,\nGuide where our infant Redeemer is laid.\n\nCold on his cradle the dewdrops are shining;\nLow lies his head with the beasts of the stall;\nAngels adore him in slumber reclining,\nMaker and Monarch, and Lord over all.\n\nSay, shall we yield him, in costly devotion,\nOdours of Edom, and offerings divine,\nGems of the mountain and pearls of the ocean,\nMyrrh from the forest or gold from the mine?\n\nVainly we offer each ample oblation,\nVainly with gifts would his favor secure;\nRicher by far is the heart's adoration;\nDearer to God are the prayers of the poor.\n\nBrightest and best of the sons of the morning,\nDawn on our darkness, and lend us thine aid;\nStar of the East, the horizon adorning,\nGuide where our infant Redeemer is laid.",
"first_line": "Brightest and best of the sons of the morning,"
}