An original hymn using the text of Orson F. Whitney's epic poem.  Music by Kevin G. Pace. 

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1. A stranger star that came from afar To fling its silver ray, Where, cradled in a lowly cave, A lowlier infant lay; And led my soft sidereal light, The orient sages bring Bare gifts of gold and frankincense, To greet the homeless King. O wondrous grace! Will gods go down Thus low that men may rise? Imprisoned here the Mighty One, Who reigned in yonder sky? Hark to that chime! What tongue sublime Now tells the hour of noon? O dying world! art welcoming Life's life, Light's sun and moon?

 2. Proclaim Him, prophet harbinger! Make plain the Mightier's way, Thou sharer of His martyrdom! Elias? Yea and Nay. The crescent moon, that knew the Sun, Ere stars had learned to shine; The waning moon, that bathed in blood, Ere sank the Sun divine. "Glory to God! good will to man! Peace, peace!" triumphal tone. "Why peace?" Is discord then no more? Are earth and heaven as one? Peace to the soul that serveth Him, The monarch manger born; There, ruler of unnumbered realms; Here, throneless and forlorn.

3.He  wandered through the faithless world, A prince in shepherd guise; He called his scattered flock, but few The Voice did recognize; For minds upborne by hollow pride, Or dimmed by sordid lust, Ne'er look for kings in beggar's garb, For diamonds in the dust. Wept He above a city doomed, Her temple, walls, and towers, O'er palaces where recreant priests Usurped unhallowed powers. "I' am the way, the life, the light!" Alas! 'twas heeded not. Ignored ­ ­ nay, mocked ­ ­ God scorned by man! And spurned the truth He taught.

4. O bane of damning unbelief! When, when till now so rife? Thou stumbling stone, thou barrier 'thwart The gates of endless life! O love of self, and mammon lust, Twin portals to despair, Where bigotry, the blinded bat, Flaps through the midnight air! Through these, gloom wrapt Gethsemane! Thy glens of guilty shade Grieved o'er the sinless Son of God, By goldbought kiss betrayed; Beheld Him unresisting dragged, Forsaken, friendless, lone, To halls where dark browed hatred sat On judgment's lofty throne.

5. As sheep before His shearers, dumb, Those patient lips were mute; The clamorous charge or taunting tongues He deigned not to dispute. They smote with cruel palm a face Which felt yet bore the sting; Then crowned with thorns His quivering brow, And mocking, hailed him "King!" Transfixt He hung, O crime of crimes! The God whom worlds adore. "Father forgive them!" Drained the dregs; Immanuelno more. No more where thunders shook the earth, Where lightnings tore the gloom, Saw that unconquered Spirit spurn The shackles of the tomb.

6. Far flaming might, a sword of light, A falchion from its sheath, It cleft the realms of darkness, and dissolved the bands of death. Hell's dungeons burst, wide open swung The everlasting bars, Whereby the ransomed soul shall win Those heights beyond the stars.