 | Clara Bancroft Beatley - 1903 - 224 pages
...And the whole world give back the song Which now the angels sing. EDMUND HAMILTON SEARS (1810-1876). O little town of Bethlehem, How still we see thee...and fears of all the years Are met in thee to-night. For Christ is born of Mary, And gathered all above, While mortals sleep, the angels keep Their watch... | |
 | Episcopal Church - 1889 - 662 pages
...Spirit day by day, That we ever one may be With the Father and with Thee. Sing, oh, sing, etc. 58 PM 0 LITTLE town of Bethlehem ! How still we see thee lie...and fears of all the years Are met in thee to-night. 2 For Christ is born of Mary, And gathered all above, While mortals sleep, the angels keep Their watch... | |
 | Thomas Bird Mosher - 1903 - 470 pages
...maids, stand forth on the floor. WILLIAM MORRIS. O LITTLE town of Bethlehem, How still we see thee lie I Above thy deep and dreamless sleep The silent stars...and fears of all the years Are met in thee to-night. For Christ is born of Mary, And, gathered all above, While mortals sleep, the angels keep Their watch... | |
 | 1922 - 710 pages
...and through an open window floated sweet strains of music from a carol service in a church near by: "O little Town of Bethlehem, How still we see thee...thy deep and dreamless sleep The silent stars go by " The little figure in bed moved, the doctors stopped talking, and the nurse bent over the little boy.... | |
 | Louis FitzGerald Benson - 1903 - 314 pages
...photograph by J. Mayall. STUDIES OF FAMILIAR HYMNS I O LITTLE TOWN OF BETHLEHEM THE TEXT OF THE HYMN 1 O little town of Bethlehem, How still we see thee...thy deep and dreamless sleep The silent stars go by : JYet in thy dark streets shineth The everlasting Light ; The hopes and fears of all the years Are... | |
 | Craig Van Gelder - 1999 - 342 pages
...system and that Perry Como was singing carols. All of a sudden I heard a line that brought me to a halt: "The hopes and fears of all the years are met in Thee tonight." I stopped and looked around the store, and thought, "In what sense and in what way are the hopes and... | |
 | Virginia Reynolds - 2000 - 70 pages
...Redner brought the completed hymn to church, where the children's choir sang it for the first time. O little town of Bethlehem, How still we see thee...and fears of all the years Are met in thee tonight. For Christ is born of Mary, And gather 'd all above, While mortals sleep, the angels keep Their watch... | |
 | Brian A. Wren - 2000 - 440 pages
...Above your deep and dreamless sleep [thy] the silent stars go by; yet in your dark streets shines forth [thy dark streets shin-eth] the everlasting light. The hopes and fears of all the years are met in you tonight. O morning stars, together proclaim the holy birth, 35. "O Come, All Ye Faithful," Pilgrim... | |
 | Ronald M. Clancy - 2000 - 120 pages
...tolling of its lyrics brings enchantment to the sacred story about a glorious starry night of long ago. O little town of Bethlehem, How still we see Thee lie! Above the deep and dreamless sleep, The silent stars go by; Yet in thy dark streets shineth The everlasting... | |
 | 2001 - 242 pages
...these is an older modal melody, for GK Chesterton's* 'O God of earth and altar' (NEH 492). FOREST GREEN O little town of Bethlehem, How still we see thee...fears of all the years Are met in thee to-night. O morning stars, together Proclaim the holy birth. And praises sing to God the King, And peace to men... | |
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O LITTLE town of Bethlehem, How still we see thee lie! Above thy deep and dreamless sleep The silent stars go by; Yet in thy dark streets shineth The everlasting Light; The hopes and fears of all the years Are met in thee to-night. 
