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It Came Upon The Midnight Clear
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It Came Upon The Midnight Clear is a Christmas carol.
Words : Edmund Hamilton Sears (1810-1876). First published in the
Christian Register, 1849.
Music : Carol, Richard Storrs Willis (1819-1900), 1850.
Source : Charles L. Hutchins, Carols Old and Carols New (Boston: Parish Choir, 1916),
carol no. 607.
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It Came Upon The Midnight Clear
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It Came Upon The Midnight Clear
1.
It came upon the midnight clear,
That glorious song of old,
From angels bending near the earth,
To touch their harps of gold;
Peace on the earth, good will to men,
From heaven's all gracious King.
The world in solemn stillness lay,
To hear the angels sing.
2.
Still through the cloven skies they come,
With peaceful wings unfurl
And still their heavenly music floats,
O'er all the weary world.
Above its sad and lowly plains,
They bend on hovering wing
And ever o'er its Babel sounds,
The blessed angels sing.
3.
Yet with the woes of sin and strife,
The world has suffered long;
Beneath the angel-strain have rolled,
Two thousand years of wrong;
And man, at war with man, hears not,
The love song which they bring:
O hush the noise, ye men of strife,
And hear the angels sing.
4.
For lo! the days are hastening on,
By prophet bards foretold,
When, with the ever-circling years,
Shall come the Age of Gold;.
When peace shall over all the earth,
Its ancient splendors fling,
And all the world give back the song,
Which now the angels sing.
Source : Charles L. Hutchins, Carols Old and Carols New,
(Boston: Parish Choir), carol 607.