12/02/2007 #12 Orange Plaza Tree Lighting Candlelight Choir\"We Three Kings of Orient Are\" is a Christmas carol (technically an Epiphany carol) written in 1857 by Reverend John Henry Hopkins, Jr., who wrote both the words and the music as part of a Christmas pageant for the General Theological Seminary in New York City. It first appeared in his Carols, Hymns and Song in 1863.\n\nHopkins was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1820, and died in Hudson, New York in 1891. He was a clergyman, author, book illustrator, stained glass window designer, and editor of the Church Journal out of New York. He was the son of John Henry Hopkins, the first bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Vermont and the eighth Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America\n\nWe three kings of Orient are\nBearing gifts we traverse afar\nField and fountain, moor and mountain\nFollowing yonder star\n\nO Star of wonder, star of night\nStar with royal beauty bright\nWestward leading, still proceeding\nGuide us to thy Perfect Light\n\nBorn a King on Bethlehem\'s plain\nGold I bring to crown Him again\nKing forever, ceasing never\nOver us all to rein\n\nO Star of wonder, star of night\nStar with royal beauty bright\nWestward leading, still proceeding\nGuide us to Thy perfect light\n\nFrankincense to offer have I\nIncense owns a Deity nigh\nPray\'r and praising, all men raising\nWorship Him, God most high\n\nO Star of wonder, star of night\nStar with royal beauty bright\nWestward leading, still proceeding\nGuide us to Thy perfect light\n\nMyrrh is mine, its bitter perfume\nBreathes of life of gathering gloom\nSorrowing, sighing, bleeding, dying\nSealed in the stone-cold tomb\n\nO Star of wonder, star of night\nStar with royal beauty bright\nWestward leading, still proceeding\nGuide us to Thy perfect light\n\nGlorious now behold Him arise\nKing and God and Sacrifice\nAlleluia, AlleluiaEarth to heav\'n replies\n\nO Star of wonder, star of night\nStar with royal beauty bright\nWestward leading, still proceeding\nGuide us to Thy perfect light "We, #12, 12/02/2007, Are", Kings, of, Orange, Orient, Plaza, Three