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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;
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O little Town of Bethlehem (1868), reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

 

Phillips Brooks

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