THE THREE WISE MEN by JOHN HUSTON FINLEY

@3The First@1

I came from Tigris' sandy plain
Where I beheld the wondrous star,
With my slow-creeping camel train
I nightly followed it afar.

@3The Second@1

I came from Persia's table-land
That lies beyond the Syrian dawn;
A candle in an angel's hand
It seemed, before the stars had gone.

@3The Third@1

And I, 'mid mountains heav'nward piled,
I saw the star that led them west;
I, too, with them would seek the Child.
I, too, would make the Holy Quest.

@3The Three@1

We asked in great Jerusalem,
But none could tell us of his birth,
And then to little Bethlehem
We came—the least of all the earth.

There came we to our journey's goal;
No farther had we need to roam;
There was a home for every soul
Where Christ himself could find no home.

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