The Star Of Jacob

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1 The Star of Jacob yet shall rise
Upon a sad and sinful world,
Like morning from the orient skies,
When night’s dark curtain clouds are furled.
And all the nations of the earth
Shall come with songs of holy mirth,
To hail the great Redeemer’s birth,
The advent of the Word divine.

2 The Star of Jacob’s heav’nly light
Shall cheer this lowly vale of tears,
As planet, through the glooms of night,
Upon the wanderer’s path appears;
And from temptation’s guileful snares,
And ’neath the load of mortal cares,
And through the toil that mortal bears,
It shall the faithful pilgrim guide.

3 The Star of Jacob’s holy beam,
Shall fade not with the fading ev’n,
But meet the pious pilgrim’s dream,
And draw his footsteps on to Heav’n;
And to the soul, with parted breath,
It shall illume the darksome path
That stretches through the vale of death,
And bring him safely to his God.

Source: The Cyber Hymnal #13245

Author: William Knox

Born: August 17, 1789, Firth, Lilliesleaf, Roxburgh, Scotland. Died: November 12, 1825, Edinburgh, Scotland. Buried: New Calton Burial Ground, Edinburgh, Scotland. Knox, William, born at Firth, Lilliesleaf, Roxburgh, Aug. 17, 1789, and educated at the parish school, and the grammar school at Musselburgh. For some time he was engaged in farming at Wrae, near Langholm, Dumfriesshire; but not succeeding to his satisfaction, he left Wrae in 1817, and finally settled in Edinburgh in 1820, where he subsequently obtained employment as a contributor to the public journals. He died in Edinburgh, Nov. 12, 1825. His poetical works were, (1) The Lonely Hearth, North Shields, 1818 ; (2) Songs of Israel, 1824; (3) The Harp of Zion, 1825; and (4) the… Go to person page >

Text Information

First Line: The Star of Jacob yet shall rise
Title: The Star Of Jacob
Author: William Knox (cento)
Meter: 8.8.8.8
Source: Songs of Israel (Edinburgh: J. Anderson, 1824)
Language: English
Copyright: Public Domain

Tune

HE LEADETH ME (Bradbury)

After seeing Gilmore's text in the Boston Watchman and Reflector, William B. Bradbury (PHH 114) composed AUCHTON for those words. Bradbury arranged the text into a stanza/refrain structure, added the final line of the refrain, and published the hymn in his The Golden Censor in 1864. AUCHTON (also kn…

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