STAR OF MY HEART

Vachel Lindsay

 

Solo 1:       Star of my heart, I follow from afar.

                   Sweet love on high, lead on where shepherds are,

                   O lead me to Jehova’s child

                   Across this dreamland lone and wild,

                   There will I speak this prayer unsaid,

                   And kiss his little haloed head—

                   “My star and I, we love thee, little child.”

 

All:             Except the Christ be born again tonight

                   In dreams of all men, saints and sons of shame,

                   The world will never see his kingdom bright.

Solo 1:       Star of all hearts, lead onward through the night

                   Past death-black deserts:  doubts without a name

                   Past hills of pain and mountains of new sin

                   To that far sky where mystic births begin

                   Where dreaming ears the angel song shall win.

All:             Our Christmas shall be rare at dawning there,

                   And each shall find his brother fair,

                   Like a little child within:

Solo 1:       All hearts of the earth shall find new birth

                   And wake, no more to sin.