The Sick Bed and a Carol

Sixty years ago a man was Ill in bed at Bristol. William Chatterton Dix was an insurance agent, and an earnest godly Churchman. When the Feast of the Epiphany came round (January 6, 1860) he was, of course, unable to go to Church, so as he lay in bed he read to himself in the Epiphany Gospel Matt. 2:1-12).
Pondering over the passage, it seemed to him to be fraught with real practical teaching for ourselves, and the Wise Men became to him examples to be followed by us. So before he slept that night he had turned these ideas into poetry, and given the world that lovely Epiphany hymn, each verse setting forth, first, the Wise Men's example, and then how we can imitate them:
As with gladness man of old
Did the guiding star behold;
As with joy they hailed its light,
Leading onward, beaming bright;
So, most gracious Lord, may we
Evermore be led to Thee.