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| Text: | Silent Night |
| Author: | Anon. |
| Tune: | [Silent night! shadowy night] |
| Composer: | Ira O. Hoffman |
1 Silent night! shadowy night!
Purple dome, starry light!
Pouring splendor of centuries down,
Gold and purple, a glorious crown,
Where the manger so rude and wild
Cradles a child, a sleeping child.
2 Silent night! mystical night!
Kings and seers sought thy light,
Where the watch of the shepherds is kept,
Heavenly hots thro’ the stillness have swept,
Clear, proclaiming a Savior born!
Singing the morn, the Christmas morn.
3 Holy night! heralding dawn!
Far and near breaks the morn!
Breaks the day when the Savior of men,
Bringing pardon and healing again,
“Holy harmless and undefiled,”
Cometh a child, a little child.
| Text Information | |
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| First Line: | Silent night! shadowy night |
| Title: | Silent Night |
| Author: | Anon. |
| Publication Date: | 1889 |
| Tune Information | |
|---|---|
| Name: | [Silent night! shadowy night] |
| Composer: | Ira O. Hoffman |
| Media | |
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| MIDI file: |  MIDI |
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