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Christmas Songs and Easter Carols #4
Display Title: The Voice of the Christ-Child First Line: The earth has grown cold with its burden of care Author: Phillips Brooks Date: 1903 Subject: Christmas |
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The Voice of the Christ Child
The earth has grown cold with its burden of care
Author: Phillips BrooksTune: DAVENANT
Published in 2 hymnals
Author: Phillips Brooks
Brooks, Phillips, D.D., was born at Boston, Dec. 13, 1835, graduated at Harvard College 1855, and was ordained in 1859. Successively Rector of the Church of the Advent, Philadelphia, and Trinity Church, Boston, he became Bishop of Mass. in 1891, and died at Boston in Jan., 1893. His Carol, "O little town of Bethlehem," was written for his Sunday School in 1868, the author having spent Christmas, 1866, at Bethlehem. His hymn, "God hath sent His angels to the earth again," is dated 1877.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)
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Display Title: The Voice of the Christ-Child First Line: The earth has grown old with its burden of care Tune Title: [The earth has grown old with its burden of care] Author: Phillips Brooks, D.D. Date: 1893
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