Text: | Calm on the Listening Ear of Night |
Author: | Edmund Hamilton Sears |
Tune: | BETHLEHEM (NEW) |
Composer: | Gottfried Wilhelm Fink |
1 Calm on the list'ning ear of night
Come heav'n's melodious strains,
Where wild Judea stretches forth
Her silver-mantled plains;
Celestial choirs from courts above
Shed sacred glories there;
And angels, with their sparkling lyres,
Make music on the air.
2 The answ'ring hills of Palestine
Send back the glad reply,
And greet from all their holy heights
The Day-spring from on high:
O'er the blue depths of Galilee
There comes a holier calm;
And Sharon waves in solemn praise
Her silent groves of palm.
3 "Glory to God!" the lofty strain
The realm of ether fills;
How sweeps the song of solemn joy
O'er Judah's sacred hills!
"Glory to God!" the sounding skies
Loud with their anthems ring:
"Peace on the earth; good will to men,"
From heaven's eternal King.
4 This day shall Christian tongues be mute,
And Christian hearts be cold?
O catch the anthem that from heaven
O'er Judah's mountains rolled,
When burst upon that listening night
The high and solemn lay,
"Glory to God; on earth be peace":
Salvation comes to-day.
Amen.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | Calm on the list'ning ear of night |
Title: | Calm on the Listening Ear of Night |
Author: | Edmund Hamilton Sears (1834) |
Meter: | C. M. D. |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1937 |
Topic: | Church Year: Christmas; Christmas Day; Names and Office of Christ: Dayspring |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | BETHLEHEM (NEW) |
Composer: | Gottfried Wilhelm Fink (1842) |
Meter: | C. M. D. |
Key: | B♭ Major |