In a manger lowly Sleeps the heavenly Child

In a manger lowly Sleeps the heavenly Child

Author: S. C. Hamerton
Tune: [In a manger lowly sleeps the heavenly Child]
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Author: S. C. Hamerton

Hamerton, Samuel Collingwood, born in 1833, educated at University College, Oxford (B.A. 1856), Incumbent of St. Paul's, Warwick, from 1866, and died there Jan. 6, 1872. His hymn "Waken, Christian children" (Christmas Carol), is in Snepp's Songs of Grace & Glory, 1872; the Hymnal Companion, 1890, and others. It appeared as a Carol published by Masters, in 1861. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)  Go to person page >

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First Line: In a manger lowly Sleeps the heavenly Child
Author: S. C. Hamerton
Language: English
Refrain First Line: Waken, Christian children, up and let us sing
Copyright: Public Domain

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