What star is this, with beams so bright

What star is this, with beams so bright. Charles Coffin* (1676-1749), translated by John Chandler* (1806-1876). This is a translation of Coffin’s ‘Quae stella sole pulchrior’, found in the Paris Breviary of 1736, and in Hymni Sacri Auctore Carolo Coffin (1736). Chandler’s translation was set for the Epiphany in his Hymns of the Primitive Church (1837). It became well known in Britain after its inclusion in the First Edition of A&M (1861), where it was altered by the compilers, in order to sharpen the references to the Epiphany, particularly in the first and last stanzas:                    Chandler                                                                A&M 1861 What star is...