[[image:4800-phillips-brooks-ed-small.jpg|right|240px|thumb|Statue of Phillips Brooks, Trinity Church, Copley Square, Boston]]
'''Phillips Brooks''' (1835-1893) was the author of the [[Christmas carol]]carol, "O Little Town of Bethlehem," which he wrote two years after the [[Civil War]]. Brooks, a descendent of Rev. [[John Cotton]], later served as [[Episcopal ]] [[bishop ]] for Massachusetts.
Brooks wrote in his Christmas carol:
<blockquote>"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."</blockquote>
Brooks is one of only 102 Americans to be honored with a bust in the [[Hall of Fame for Great Americans]]<ref>[http://www.bcc.cuny.edu/HallofFame/onLineTour/browser.cfm?StartRow=77] (the now-almost-forgotten monumental colonnade at Bronx Community College)</ref>.
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