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First Line: Three kings there were from orient who came
Last Line: Bring that of which they have the chiefest, love.
Subject(s): Christmas; Gifts & Giving; Magi; Nativity, The


Three kings there were from Orient who came,
Led by a star with strange, compelling flame,
A Prince's sign;
And shepherds, too, followed its beckoning light,
Till in a manger, lo, ineffable sight,
Godhood benign!
That blessed the givers of the royal gold,
But smiled upon the lambkin from the fold.

We, too, may bring our frankincense and myrrh,
And pay our tribute there, as though we were
Of kingly birth;
But 'tis not gifts like these that He doth prize
So much as those which come in lowlier wise
From the poor of earth,
Who having naught of gold or treasure-trove
Bring that of which they have the chiefest, love.





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