It Came Upon a Midnight Clear

It Came upon a Midnight Clear is a well known Christmas carol.
* Tune: Noel
* Meter: DCM
* Style: Victorian Carol Style: Carol
* Composer: Arthur Seymour Sullivan (1842 - 1900)
* Lyricist: Edmund Hamilton Sears (1810 - 1876) 
==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 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 over its Babel sounds
:The blessèd angels sing.
:Yet with the woes of sin and strife
:The world has 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;
:O hush the noise, ye men of strife
:And hear the angels sing.
: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!
: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 over all the earth
:Its ancient splendours fling,
:And the whole world send back the song
:Which now the angels sing. 
==External links==
*Hymns Without Words - free MP3 download suitable for use in services
Category:Christian music
Category:Christmas