Earth Has Many a Noble City (Stuttgart)

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Earth Has Many a Noble City (Stuttgart)

Text by: Aurelius Clemens Prudentius 348-413
Translated by: Edward Caswall
Tune: Stuttgart by: C F Witt 1715
Source: Episcopal 1940 Hymnal #48

Here is my complete recording of the Episcopal 1940 Hymnal:

1 Earth has many a noble city;
Bethlehem, thou dost all excel;
Out of thee the Lord from Heaven
Came to rule His Israel.

2 Fairer than the sun at morning
Was the star that told His birth,
To the world its God announcing
Seen in fleshly form on earth.

3 Eastern sages at His cradle
Make oblations rich and rare;
See them give, in deep devotion,
Gold and frankincense and myrrh.

4 Sacred gifts of mystic meaning:
Incense doth their God disclose,
Gold the King of kings proclaimeth,
Myrrh His sepulcher foreshows.

5 Jesu, whom the Gentiles worshipped
At Thy glad Epiphany,
Unto Thee, with God the Father
And the Spirit, glory be.

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Isn't that tune similar to Come thou Long Expected Jesus?