HYMN Lyrics Text: 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 unfurled
and still their heavenly music flats
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 angels strain have rolled
two thousand years of wrong
and men at war with men hear not
the love-song which they bring
O hush the noise, ye men of strife
And hear the angels sing!
4. 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.
5. For lo! The days are hastening on
by prophet bards foretold
when with the ever-circling years
Comes round the age of gold
when peace shall ever all the earth
it’s ancient splendeous fling
and the whole world
give back the song
which now the angels sing