It Came Upon A Midnight Clear........words by Edmund H. Sears
It came upon a 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.
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 lowly plains they bend on hovering wing,
and ever o'er its Babel sounds, the blessed angels sing.
Yet through the woes of sin and strife
the world has suffered long;
beneath the heavenly hymn have rolled two thousand years of wrong;
and warring human kind hears not the tidings which they bring;
Oh hush the noise and cease your strife
and hear
the angels
sing!
*images from my personal Christmas card collection and one from an email*
