"Saw You Never in the Twilight"...an Advent Hymn

A little-known but beautiful hymn for Epiphany (today, January 6)   [tune in video below]

"Saw you never in the twilight, when the sun had left the skies
Up in heaven, the clear stars shining through the gloom like silver eyes?
So of old the wise men, watching, saw a little stranger star
And they knew the King was given, and they followed it from far.

Heard you never of the story how they crossed the desert wild
Journeyed on by plain and mountain, til they found the Holy Child?
How they opened all their treasure, kneeling to that infant King;
Gave the gold and fragrant incense, gave the myrrh in offering?

Know ye not that lowly baby was the bright and Morning Star?
He who came to light the Gentiles and the darkened isles afar?
And we, too, may seek His cradle; there our hearts' best treasures bring;
Love and faith and true devotion for our Savior, God and King."

--Cecil France's Alexander, 1853
5th Century French Melody