Verse_Lyric: 1
1. When, marshalled on the nightly plain,

the glitt’ring host bestud the sky,

one star alone of all the train

can fix the sinner’s wand’ring eye.



Verse_Lyric: 2
2. 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.

Verse_Lyric: 3
3. It is my guide, my light, my all,

it bids my dark forebodings cease;

and through the storm and danger’s thrall

it leads me to the port of peace.



Verse_Lyric: 4
4. Then safely moored, my perils o’er,

I’ll sing, first in night’s diadem,

forever and for evermore,

the Star, the Star of Bethlehem.