We three Kings of Orient are [a cappella]

by John Henry Hopkins

sheet music (PDF master score with permission to print or download an authorised number of copies) available via this website: GBP 1.75 per print-out

• The Three Kings
• We three Kings of Orient are [accompaniment]

We three Kings of Orient are
Bearing gifts we traverse afar
Field and fountain, moor and mountain
Following yonder star
O Star of Wonder, Star of Night
Star with royal beauty bright
Westward leading, still proceeding
Guide us to thy perfect light.

Born a king on Bethlehem plain
Gold I bring to crown him again
King for ever, ceasing never
Over us all to reign
O...

Frankincense to offer have I
Incense owns a Deity nigh
Prayer and praising all men raising
Worship him, God on high.
O...

Myrrh is mine, its bitter perfume
Breathes a life of gathering gloom
Sorrowing, sighing, bleeding, dying
Sealed in the stone-cold tomb
O...

Glorious now behold him arise
King and God and sacrifice
Heaven sings Alleluia
Alleluia the earth replies.
O...


John Henry Hopkins (1820-91)

• choral - mixed voices unaccompanied