It Came Upon the Midnight Clear

"It Came Upon the Midnight Clear" is a Christmas song written by Edmund Hamilton Sears and Richard Storrs Willis.

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 good will to men
 * From heav'ns all gracious King
 * The world in solemn stillness lay
 * To hear the angels sing


 * Still through the cloven skies they came
 * With peaceful wings of furl'd
 * And still their heav'nly music floats
 * O'er all the weary world
 * Above its sad and lowly plains
 * They bend on hov'ring wing
 * And ever o'er its Babel sounds
 * The blessed angels sing


 * For lo the days are hast'ning on
 * By prophets seen of old
 * When with the ever circling years
 * Shall come the time foretold
 * When the new heav'n and Earth shall own
 * The Prince of Peace their King
 * And the whole of world send back the song
 * Which now the angels sing