Christmas Songs It Came Upon A Midnight Clear Lyrics

It Came Upon A Midnight Clear Lyrics

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,
goodwill to men, from heav'n'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 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.



O 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 prophets seen of old

When with the ever
circling years shall come the time foretold

When the new heaven and earth
shall own the prince of peace their King

And the whole world send back the
song which now the angels sing.