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Subject: American Minute - Dec. 13 - Phillips
Brooks & Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 20:31:28 -0600
American Minute with Bill Federer
December 13
Phillips Brooks was born DECEMBER 13, 1835.
The bishop of the Episcopal Church in Massachusetts, Brooks is
best
remembered for a song he wrote two years after the Civil War,
which
goes:
"O little town of Bethlehem! How still we see thee lie;
Above thy deep and dreamless sleep, The silent stars go by;
Yet in thy dark streets shineth, The everlasting Light;
The hopes and fears of all the years, Are met in thee
tonight."
At Harvard, Phillips Brooks was taught by Oliver Wendell Holmes
and
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. President Jimmy Carter referred to
Longfellow while seeking U.N. sanctions against Iran, December 21,
1979, stating:
"Henry Longfellow wrote a Christmas carol in a time of
crisis, the
War Between the States, in 1864. Two verses of that carol
particularly express my thoughts and prayers and, I'm sure, those
of
our Nation in this time of challenge..."
Carter continued:
"I would like to quote from that poem
'And in despair I bowed my head. There is no peace on earth, I
said.
For hate is strong and mocks the song of peace on earth, good will
to
men.
Then pealed the bells, more loud and deep, God is not dead, nor
does
he sleep.
The wrong shall fail, the right prevail, With peace on earth, good
will to men.'"
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