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[[image:4800-phillips-brooks-ed-small.jpg|right|240px|thumb|Statue of Phillips Brooks, Trinity Church, Copley Square, Boston]] | [[image:4800-phillips-brooks-ed-small.jpg|right|240px|thumb|Statue of Phillips Brooks, Trinity Church, Copley Square, Boston]] | ||
| − | Phillips Brooks (1835-1893) was the author of the Christmas carol, "O Little Town of Bethlehem," which he wrote two years after the Civil War. Brooks, a descendent of Rev. [[John Cotton]], later served as Episcopal bishop for Massachusetts. | + | '''Phillips Brooks''' (1835-1893) was the author of the [[Christmas carol]], "O Little Town of Bethlehem," which he wrote two years after the Civil War. Brooks, a descendent of Rev. [[John Cotton]], later served as Episcopal bishop for Massachusetts. |
Brooks wrote in his Christmas carol: | Brooks wrote in his Christmas carol: | ||
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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 tonight." | "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 tonight." | ||
| − | Brooks is honored with a bust in the Hall of Fame for Great Americans[http://www.bcc.cuny.edu/HallofFame/onLineTour/browser.cfm?StartRow=77] (the now-almost-forgotten monumental colonnade at Bronx Community College). | + | Brooks is honored with a bust in the Hall of Fame for Great Americans<ref>[http://www.bcc.cuny.edu/HallofFame/onLineTour/browser.cfm?StartRow=77] (the now-almost-forgotten monumental colonnade at Bronx Community College)</ref>. |
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[[category:composers]] | [[category:composers]] | ||
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Revision as of 17:10, November 14, 2007
Phillips Brooks (1835-1893) was the author of the Christmas carol, "O Little Town of Bethlehem," which he wrote two years after the Civil War. Brooks, a descendent of Rev. John Cotton, later served as Episcopal bishop for Massachusetts.
Brooks wrote in his Christmas carol:
"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 tonight."
Brooks is honored with a bust in the Hall of Fame for Great Americans[1].
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