The earth has grown old with its burden of care, but at Christmas it always is young, the heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair, and its soul full of music breaks the air, when the song of angels is sung.

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Phillips Brooks was American clergyman and author. Phillips Brooks was an American Episcopal clergyman and author, long the rector of Boston's Trinity Church and briefly Bishop of Massachusetts. One of the most popular preachers of the Gilded Age, he worked to make the Christian Church more relevant to contemporaries. Read more on Wikipedia →

Themes

  • Music — The universal language of melody, rhythm, and harmony
  • Soul — The inner self, consciousness, and spiritual essence

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