It Came Upon The Midnight Clear

It Came Upon The Midnight Clear - Christmas Choir

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

Still through the cloven skies they come

With peaceful wings unfurled

And still their heavenly music floats

Over all the weary world

Above its sad and lowly plains

They bend on hovering wing

And ever over its babel sounds

The blessed angels sing

Yet with Te woes of sin and strife

The world hath suffered long

Beneath the angel strain have rolled

Two thousand years of wrong

And man at war with man hears not

The love song which they bring

Oh hush the noise ye men of strife

And hear the angels sing

For lo the days are hastening on

By prophet bards foretold

When with the ever circling years

Shall come the age of gold

When peace shall over all the earth

Its ancient splendors fling

And all the world give back the song

Which now the angels sing