AS WITH GLADNESS MEN OF OLD
   DID THE GUIDING STAR BEHOLD
   AS WITH JOY THEY HAILED ITS LIGHT
   LEADING ONWARD, BEAMING BRIGHT,
   SO, MOST GRACIOUS GOD, MAY WE
   EVERMORE BE LED BY THEE.
  
   AS WITH JOYFUL STEPS THEY SPED
   SAVIOUR, TO THY LOWLY BED,
   THERE TO BEND THE KNEE BEFORE
   THEE WHOM HEAVEN AND EARTH ADORE,
   SO MAY WE WITH WILLING FEET
   EVER SEEK THE MERCY SEAT.
  
   AS THEY OFFERED GIFTS MOST RARE
   AT THY CRADLE RUDE AND BARE,
   SO MAY WE WITH HOLY JOY,
   PURE, AND FREE FROM SIN'S ALLOY,
   ALL OUR COSTLIEST TREASURES BRING
   CHRIST, TO THEE, OUR HEAVENLY KING.
  
   HOLY JESUS, EVERY DAY
   KEEP US IN THE NARROW WAY;
   AND, WHEN EARTHLY THINGS ARE PAST,
   BRING OUR RANSOMED SOULS AT LAST
   WHERE THEY NEED NO SOUL TO GUIDE,
   WHERE NO CLOUDS THY GLORY HIDE.
  
   IN THE HEAVENLY COUNTRY BRIGHT
   NEED THEY NO CREATED LIGHT;
   THOU ITS LIGHT, ITS JOY, ITS CROWN,
   THOU ITS SUN, WHICH GOES NOT DOWN.
   THERE FOR EVER MAY WE SING
   HALLELUJAHS TO OUR KING.