Hymnal: The Christian Hymnal
Date: 1871
Compiler: Under direction of the Christian Hymn-Book Committee
Publisher/Printer: Bosworth Chase & Hall
First Line: Calm on the listening ear of night
Topic: Christ/Burial and Resurrection
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer:
Meter: CM
Tune: Arlington
Hymn Number: 131
Page Number: 053, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsCalm, on the listening ear of night,
Come heaven's melodious strains,
Where wild Judea stretches far
Her silver-mantled plains.
Celestial choirs, from courts above,
Shed sacred glories there,
And angels, with their sparkling lyres,
Make music on the air.
The answering 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.
"Glory to God!" the sounding skies
Loud with their anthems ring--
"Peace to the earth, good will to men,
From heaven's eternal King."
Lights on thy hills, Jerusalem!
The Savior now is born!
And bright on Bethlehem's joyous plains
Breaks the first Advent morn.