"Oh, Little Town of Bethlehem"

Maoriland Worker, Volume 12, Issue 303, 20 December 1922, Page 12

"Oh, Little Town of Bethlehem"

By PHILLIPS BROOKS

Oh \ittle town of Bethlehem, How still we see tiiee He. " Above thy deep and dreamless sleep. The silent stars go by. < Yet in they dark streets shinet&_ The Everlasting LigM, The hopes and fears, of all the ye^re, Are met in tiiee to-n%lit!

For Christ Is born of Mary, : '■ And gathered all above. While mortals sleep, the angels keep, Their watch on wondering love. Oh morning stars together Proclaim the Holy Birth And praises sing, to God the King t And Pstace to men on earth.

I'Oh Holy child of. Bethlehem, '. I : Descend to us wo pray, "■ j Cast out our sin, and enter In, ,I Be born in us to-day, jWe hear the Christmas Angels, ; The great, glad tidings tell: ' Oh! come to us, abide in us, i Our Lord Emmanuel! i! ■ ■