Christmas
Calm On The Listening Ear Of Night
- Words:
- Edmund Hamilton Sears
- Music:
- John Bacchus Dykes
Sheet music
- 1Calm on the listening ear of nightCome heav’n’s melodious strains,Where wild Judea stretches farHer silver mantled plains.The answering hills of PalestineSend back the glad reply;And greet, from all their holy heights,The Dayspring from on high.
- 2O’er the blue depths of GalileeThere comes a holier calm,And Sharon waves, in solemn praise,Her silent groves of palm.”Glory to God!” the sounding skiesLoud with their anthems ring,“Peace to the earth, goodwill to men,From heav’n’s eternal King!”
- 3Light on thy hills, Jerusalem!The Savior now is born:More bright on Bethlehem’s joyous plainsBreaks the first Christmas morn.Amen.
In the hymnals
- Written in 1834, the words are in 359 hymnals indexed by Hymnary.org. Their history →
Words, music and setting are in the public domain. The sheet music and words are from PDHymns.com. The piano is the FluidR3 General MIDI sound font (MIT licence). How many hymnals print a hymn, and when it was written, is from Hymnary.org.