| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 57438 |
| QUOTATION: | While shepherds watched their flocks by night, All seated on the ground, The angel of the Lord came down, And glory shone around. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Nahum Tate (16521715), Irish poet, dramatist. While Shepherds Watched (l. 14). . .
New Oxford Book of Christian Verse, The. Donald Davie, ed. (1981) Oxford University Press. |
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