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Harvard Hymns
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 November 2011
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Most readers of this article have sung, and many have learned by heart, a noble Christmas hymn whose music is now heard in more than one continent:—
It came upon the midnight clear,
That glorious song of old;
but few of those who sing and love it know that it was written by a country minister who graduated from the Harvard Divinity School. Fewer still are aware that a series of men have proceeded from this department of Harvard University who, for now almost a hundred years, have maintained this succession in sacred song. What may properly be called a school of religious poetry constitutes a worthy part of the contribution to literary culture which Harvard has made and which through many generations formed the peculiar and greatest distinction of New England.
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- Copyright © President and Fellows of Harvard College 1912
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1 Samuel Longfellow, by Joseph May, p. 50.
2 Ibid., p. 54.