It Came upon the Midnight Clear =============================== w: Edmund H. Sears, 1849 m: Richard Storrs Willis, 1850 Tune: Carol Meter: CMD [Verse 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 heav'n's all-gracious King." The world in solemn stillness lay, to hear the angels sing. [Verse 2] Still through the cloven skies they came with peaceful wings unfurled, and still their heav'nly music floats o'er all the weary world; above its sad and lowlyplains, the bend on hov'ring wing, and ever o'er its Babel sounds the blessed angels sing. [Verse 3] 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. [Verse 4] For lo! the days are hast'ning on, by prophet seen of old, when with the evercircling years shall come the time foretold when peace shall over all the earth its ancient splendors fling, and the whole world send back the song which now the angels sing.