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Meter: 7.6.7.6 D with refrain Appears in 4 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Massah M. Warner, 1836-1900 Tune Key: C Major Incipit: 54515 34532 23453 Used With Text: Softly the Night Is Sleeping

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Softly the Night Is Sleeping

Author: Edward Abiel Washburne, 1819-1881 Appears in 20 hymnals Topics: The Church Year Christmas Used With Tune: WARNER

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Glory to God

Author: Rev. Edward A. Washburne, 1819-1881 Hymnal: Hymnal and Liturgies of the Moravian Church #57 (1920) First Line: Softly the night is sleeping Topics: Christ Nativity of Languages: English Tune Title: WARNER

Softly the Night Is Sleeping

Author: Edward Abiel Washburne, 1819-1881 Hymnal: Hymnal and Liturgies of the Moravian Church #70 (1969) Topics: The Church Year Christmas Languages: English Tune Title: WARNER

Softly the Night Is Sleeping

Author: Edward Abiel Washburne Hymnal: Moravian Book of Worship #284 (1995) Meter: 7.6.7.6 D with refrain Refrain First Line: Glory to God! Lyrics: 1 Softly the night is sleeping on Bethlehem's peaceful hill; silent the shepherds watching, the gentle flocks are still. But hark! The wondrous music falls from the op'ning sky; valley and cliff re-echo, "Glory to God on high!" Refrain: Glory to God! Glory to God! Glory to God! It rings again; peace on the earth! Goodwill to men! 2 Day in the east is breaking; day o'er the crimsoned earth; now the glad world is waking, glad in the Savior's birth! See where the clear star bendeth over the manger blessed; see where the infant Jesus smiles upon Mary's breast! [Refrain] 3 Come with the gladsome shepherds, quick hast'ning from the fold; come with the wise men, pouring incense and myrrh and gold. Come to him, poor and lowly, around the cradle throne, come with your hearts of sunshine, and sing the angels' song. [Refrain] Topics: Christmas; Christian year--Christmas Scripture: Matthew 1:23 Languages: English Tune Title: WARNER

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E. A. Washburn

1819 - 1881 Person Name: Edward Abiel Washburne, 1819-1881 Author of "Softly the Night Is Sleeping" in Hymnal and Liturgies of the Moravian Church Washburn, Edward Abiel, D.D., was born April 16, 1819; graduated at Harvard, 1838; studied theology at Andover and New Haven, and entered the Congregational ministry. In 1844, having been ordained in the Protestant Episcopal Church, he became Rector of St. Paul's, Newburyport, Mass., where he remained till 1851. Spending 1851-52 in Europe, on his return he became Rector of St. John's, Hartford, 1853-62, and Professor of Church Polity in Berkeley Divinity School, Middletown, Connecticut; also Rector of St. Mark's, Philadelphia, 1862-65; and Calvary, New York, 1865-81. He died Feb. 2, 1881. His works include Social Law of God, 1874, and translations of Latin hymns. A selection from his poems was published in New York in 1881. Some of his translations are given in Schaff's Christ in Song, 1869, and other collections. [Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.] -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)