Calm on the listening ear of night

Calm on the listening ear of night. Edmund Hamilton Sears* (1810-1876). First published in the Boston Observer in 1834, and subsequently in the Christian Register (1835) (JJ, p. 1036). It was then revised by the author. According to Alfred P. Putnam, who published it in Singers and Songs of the Liberal Faith (Boston, 1875), it reached its final form in the Monthly Magazine, vol xxxv. Putnam entitled it ‘Christmas Song’, printing the full text of five 8-line stanzas: Calm on the listening ear of night  Come Heaven's melodious strains>Where wild Judea stretches far  Her silver-mantled plains;Celestial choirs from courts above  Shed sacred glories there;And angels with their sparkling...