Brightest and best of the sons of the morning,
Dawn on our darkness, and lend us thine aid.
Star of the east the horizon adorning,
Guide where our infant Redeemer is laid.
Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans, Reginald Heber, Robert Pollok (1831). “The poetical works of Hemans, Heber and Pollok”, p.17