It Came Upon a Midnight Clear

Edmund H. Sears

Music by Richard Storrs Willis
 






It came upon a midnight clear 

That glorious song of old

From angels bending near the earth 

O'er all 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

 

Still through the cloven skies they come

With peaceful wings unfurled

And still their heavenly music floats 

O'er all the weary world

Above its sad and lonely plains

They bend on hovering wing

And ever o'er its Babel sounds

The blessed angels sing

 

And ye beneath life's crushing load

Whose forms are bending low

Who toil along the climbing way

With painful steps and slow

Look now for glad and golden hours

Come swiftly on the wing

O rest beside the weary road

And hear the angels sing

 

For lo the days are hastening on

By prophet bards foretold

When with the every-circling years

Comes round the age of gold

When peace shall over all the earth

Its ancient spendors fling

And the whole world send back the song

Which now the angels sing





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