XXXVII.
THE WISE MEN FROM THE EAST.
“Where is thy new-born Lord, O Judah? Zion—where thy King?
The treasures of our distant land to Him we tribute bring;
Lo! in the East we saw His star, the day-spring from on high,
And we have come to worship Him enthroned in majesty!”
Thus spake the Eastern sages, thus the pious Gentiles spake,
But Judah would not know her Lord, His people would not wake;