Weekly beauty: "O Morning Star, How Fair and Bright"

I love this Epiphany hymn, which we sang at our conference meeting recently. Here's a video of the first verse, with additional verses (though not all six that are in the ELW) printed below.

O Morning Star, how fair and bright!
You shine with God's own truth and light,
aglow with grace and mercy!
Of Jacob's line, King David's son,
our Lord and Savior, you have won
our hearts to serve you only!
Lowly, holy!
Great and glorious, all victorious, rich in blessing!
Rule and might o'er all possessing!


Come, precious diamond, light divine,
and deep within our hearts now shine;
there light a flame undying!
In your one body let us be
as living branches of a tree,
your life our lives supplying.
Now, though daily
earth's deep sadness may perplex us and distress us,
yet with heav'nly joy you bless us.


Almighty Father, in your Son
you loved us, when not yet begun
was this old earth's foundation!
Your Son has ransomed us in love
to live in him here and above:
this is your great salvation.
Alleluia!
Christ the living, to us giving
life forever,
keeps us yours and fails us never!


What joy to know, when life is past
the Lord we love is first and last,
the end and the beginning!
He will one day, oh glorious grace,
transport us to that happy place
beyond all tears and sinning!
Amen! Amen!
Come Lord Jesus! Crown of gladness! We are yearning
for the day of your returning.