Del oriente venimos tres

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Del Oriente somos los tres

Translator: Effie Chastain de Naylor; Author: John H. Hopkins
Tune: KINGS OF ORIENT
Published in 11 hymnals

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Representative Text

1 Del Oriente somos tres,
cabalgamos hasta Belén,
que ha nacido el prometido,
príncipe de Israel.

Estribillo:
¡Oh, astro de sublime ardor,
de divino resplandor!
Nuncio bello, tus destellos
nos guíarán con tu fulgor.

2 Del lucero vamos en pos,
nos conduce al hijo de Dios;
yo le ofrezco dulce incienso,
le rindo adoración. [Estribillo]

3 Ha venido al mundo la luz;
mirra yo le ofrezco a Jesús,
mirra pura, amargura,
símbolo de la cruz. [Estribillo]

4 Oro traigo para el rey
que ha nacido aquí en Belén;
rey excelso, rey eterno,
del mundo sumo bien. [Estribillo]

Source: Las Voces del Camino: un complemento de Singing the Living Traditions #57

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Translator: Effie Chastain de Naylor

Born in Mexico in 1889 to parents from the U.S. who were missionaries. She married George Dent Naylor, a Methodist missionary and they worked in Guantánamo. She was a composer and choir director. Her music is widely used in Cuban churches. Dianne Shapiro, from A Social History of Cuban's Protestants: God and the Nation, by James A.Baer (Lanham: Lexington Books, 2019) Go to person page >

Author: John H. Hopkins

John Henry Hopkins, Jr MA USA 1820-1891. Born in Pittsburgh, PA, having 12 siblings, the son of pioneer parents (his father from Dublin, his mother from Hamburg) he became an ecclesiologist. His father had been an ironmaster, school teacher, lawyer, priest and second Episcopal Bishop of Vermont, (becoming presiding bishop in 1865). When his father founded the Vermont Episcopal Institute, he needed an assistant to help run it, so he picked his son to become a tutor and disciplinarian. The younger Hopkins played the flute and bugle in the school orchestra and also taught Sunday school. John Henry reflected the artistic talents of both parents in music, poetry, and art. After graduating from the University of Vermont in 1839, he returned… Go to person page >

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First Line:	Del Oriente somos los tres
Title:	Del oriente venimos tres
English Title:	We three kings of Orient are
Author:	John H. Hopkins
Translator:	Effie Chastain de Naylor
Meter:	8.8.8.6 with refrain
Language:	Spanish
Refrain First Line:	O, astro de sublime ardor
Copyright:	Public Domain